School: Gortnasilla (roll number 15133)
- Location:
- Gortnasillagh East, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Loughlin
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- 1. We have a timber churn at home.
2. It is about three feet in height
3. It is about seventeen inches in the bottom and 1 foot 9 inches on the top
4. The sides are round
5. It is about three years old
6. When it is about half-full we can know by means of a plug of timber which is half way in the side.
7. Butter is made once a week in the winter time and twice a week in the sumer time in this churn.
8. There are three parts in a churn the staves, bottom and hoops. The hoops are made of iron. My mother does the churning. If any people come in when we are churning they generally take a brash. The reason they take a brash is to put good luck on the churning. It is churned with the hands in this locality and the dash is worked up(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mc Weeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Treannadullagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Brian Mc Weeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Treannadullagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Harkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Treannadullagh, Co. Leitrim
