School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 034
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- we have a churn at home. It is cyclical one.It is about twenty years old. It has many different parts and they are as follows:- the lid, dash, trencher, juggler and butter bats.My father generally does the churning, because it is very strenuous work. If strangers come in while the churning is in progress they always take a brace(?). This is the custom in all parts, because if they did otherwise it is said they take the butter with them. On coming into a house while churning is on they also say "God bless the cows? It takes about three quarters of an hour to do a churning.When butter is coming on the cream little white specks appear. They get bigger by degrees and they continue doing so until the worker decides it is big enough.In the Summer time cold water is put in the churn while the work is in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Hackett
- Gender
- Female
