School: Rooskey
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Martin J. Casey
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- We have no churn at home but I have seen many of them with the neighbours. The reason why we have no churn is we send our milk to the creamery, but instead of a churn we have a can in which we are able to churn the milk. We had one a few years ago but it got broken. These churns were about three feet high. They were wider at the bottom than at the top. They were about a foot wide. There are two parts in these churns the churn dash and the dish or another name for the dish the clob. There was usually a mug of water put in the cream at first to heat it, and to loosen the little bags of butter. The dash(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo