School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Baile an Tallúnaigh, Co. Lú
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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- Churning
There are different kinds of churns. They are dash churns barrel churns and round churns.
There are not many dash-churns in this district.
We have a churn at home. It is a round one.
Its height is twenty one inches and the width is eighteen inches. Its sides are round and it is about ten years old.
The various parts are called the crib the lid the stands and the screw.
When the milk gets cold for churning some boiling water is put into it.
When a stranger comes in and the churning going on they take a twist churning.
The reason they help is because when they are leaving the house the people would think that they would take the butter with them. The churn is worked by hand.
The churning takes about a half an hour.
When the churning is finished the butter is lifted out with saucer or sometimes with a stranger.
Collected by Kathleen Mc Eneaney,
Tallanstown,
Ardee.
Got from Mrs Mc Eneaney,
Tallanstown,
Ardee.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Eneaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Tallúnaigh, Co. Lú
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Eneaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Tallúnaigh, Co. Lú
