School: Coole (roll number 3936)
- Location:
- An Chúil, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: T. Mac Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 425
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- (continued from previous page)-ing her self into a hare.
The above story was told to me by my uncle, Edward Murtagh, of Coole, Co. Westmeath.
- I have a churn at home. It is not a dash churn but a churn that is wide in the middle and small at the top. Long ago there was no barrel churns except a dash churn or a churn that would be turned by a horse outside in the yard.
About forty years ago there was a maid in Gaulstown house. She would put the milk in the churn and would lock the door of the dairy. She would go about the whole day doing the work.
After six o'clock she would go into the dairy and the milk would be churned. If any one seen her put the milk into the churn it would not be churned. She would have to put in the milk before twelve o'clock or it would not be churned. She would also have to put the tongs in the fire while the milk was in the churn.
There was a man living in Coole about one hundred years ago and he was churning on night but he had no butter. He went to Fore to tell a man called Connor Sheridan. (This(continues on next page) - Informant
- Pat Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carn, Co. na hIarmhí
