School: An Cheathrú Gharbh
- Location:
- Carrowgarve, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Fiachra
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- It was the Arabs who lived in Arabia who first found the method of churning. They used to bring big bottles of milk with them every day when they were going out camping. With all the rattling the milk got, it changed into a substance which they called “butter”. Nowadays the method of churning is nothing new to the people. In fact no breakfast table is complete without butter on it.
There were a lot of superstitions attached to the methods of churning by the old people long ago. Some of those superstitions are – If a man came in while the woman of the house(continues on next page)
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