School: Cill a' Lachtáin

Location:: Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
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and cold in Summer. The butter is taken out of the churn into a basin and washed and salted. Sometime ago the people used to put a coal of fire under the churn when they would be churning. It is customary when a man comes into the house and lights his pipe not to go away again without helping at the churning. Buttermilk is used for making bread.
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Our churn at home is a dash churn. It is about three feet in height. The sides of the churn are round and it is about fifteen years old. The parts of it are the [?] dash, churn cup, butter-dish. There is a mark on our churn to correspond

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