School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)

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1. Churning (continued)

   

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   churning for twenty minutes we can see the butter on top of the milk, when it is ready my mother lifts it out and washes the buttermilk out of it, and then puts salt in the butter, and hairs it with a knife, and clapps it with two wooden spads and makes it into prints. We bake the bread with the buttermilk, and give some to the calves, and my father takes some of it to Derry on Saturday.

   

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2. The Care of the Feet

   

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   People wore boots or shoes in former times at the age of sixteen and seventeen before that they wore not boots or shoe. When the people would be coming to Ishakeen chapel, Parish of Muff, Co. Donegal on a Sunday they would carry their shoes over their shoulders and would come on their bare feet until they came near to the chapel then they put the on and when they came back to the same place they took them off again. Children go on their bare feet in the summer

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
         1. shoes (~1,841)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Eskaheen, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   James Doherty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Eskaheen, Co. Donegal