School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Ceathrú Mhic Giolla Shúiligh, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 390
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- Churning
We have a churn at home and it is made out of oak. It is about 4 ft high and 2ft wide at they bottom and 1 foot 6 in at the top. it is a round churn and there are iron hoops outside round about it. It is fourteen years old. The top part is called the peck. We churn twice each week twice a week in Summer and once each week in Winter as the milk is much scarcer. The people of the house does the churning and if any neighbour comes in during that time he helps. It is an old saying that if any person came in during the churning ad not to take the churn-dash, they would bring the butter with them. The churning takes an hour. Our churning is done(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Dooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Droim Ard, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mrs James Henry
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- An Droim Ard, Co. Shligigh
