School: Coill an Gharráin (roll number 14865)
- Location:
- Killacorraun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 351
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- (continued from previous page)is sometimes taken out of the churn with the hands and sometimes it is taken out with a butter spade. Then it is put into a butter dish and washed a couple of times with spring water. Afterwards it is salted and made into a roll with the butter spades.
It is said that if a stranger comes into a house that person is making a churning if he does not take the churning for a few minutes that the churning will not be able to be made. When a [?] Some people use butter milk as a cure for colds and sore throats. They boil it and drink the whey. They do not eat the curds because they say it is not good.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlís Ní Ceallacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockbrack, Co. Mayo
