School: Belvoir, Kilkishen
- Location:
- Belvoir, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chadhla
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- We have a churn a home and it is on a stand one can twist it. It is called an end over end churn. It was made about twenty years ago. In Summer the churn is made twice a week and once a week in Winter.If thunder comes the churn is always made because the cream would boil and the butter would sour tasted.The cream is kept in a tub and all cream before made must be twenty four hours old.
If a stranger comes in while the churn is making they always take a "Dreas" of it for fear they would take the butter.I heard my grandmother say that if a man came in while the churn is making to put a coal in his pipe he wouldn't be let by the people of the(continues on next page)
