School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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- We have a churn at home. It is about three feet tall and a foot and a half at the bottom and top. The sides of it are round. It is five years old. The different parts are the lid, clapper, and churndash.
Butter is made once a week in Winter and twice a week in Summer and it is my mother that does it. Strangers who come in during the churning help at the work because it is said they would bring the butter. The churning takes about half an hour it is done by hand,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Kate Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Kilgarriff
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo