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School: Rooskey

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Roosky, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Martin J. Casey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 265

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    We have no churn at home but I have seen many of them with the neighbours. The reason why we have no churn is we send our milk to the creamery, but instead of a churn we have a can in which we are able to churn the milk. We had one a few years ago but it got broken. These churns were about three feet high. They were wider at the bottom than at the top. They were about a foot wide. There are two parts in these churns the churn dash and the dish or another name for the dish the clob. There was usually a mug of water put in the cream at first to heat it, and to loosen the little bags of butter. The dash
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Gallagher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Roosky, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Thomas Gallagher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Roosky, Co. Mayo