School: Doire Liath (roll number 14301)
- Location:
- Derrylea, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cuanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 114
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“We have a churn at home.”
We have a churn at home.
The size of our churn is about three feet high and two feet wide it is like a barrel.
It is about twenty years old.
The parts of the churn are, the dash, the claibbin, the lid, and the churn. The churning is made once a week.
My mother makes the churning. The old people used to put salt and coals of fire under the churn before they made the churning.
If a stranger comes in during the churning, it is right for him to take the dash if even only for a minute for fear he would steal the butter.
A churning takes a half an hour in Summer and an hour in Winter. The dash is pulled up and down until the churning is made.
When the churning is made the lid is taken off and the little bits of butter are seen on the claibbin of the churn.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Dubhsláine
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grallagh, Co. Mayo
- Collector
- Mary Kate Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Bridget Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Grallagh, Co. Mayo