School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)churn. Long ago people never made prints of their butter. They put it in small bowls or other glass dishes for butter, which had a lid on them for keeping the butter safe from dust or flies.
- We have a churn at home it is called a barrel churn. The neighbours have staff churns. It is a round barrel and stand on four legs. It measures four feet high. It takes a half an hour to churn. The people churn three times in summer and twice in winter. There is a little glass top on the lid of our churn and you know the milk is churned when the butter shows on this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frances Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Grace Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal
