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School: Glendooen (roll number 11751)

Location:
Doon Glebe, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Edith V. Jennings
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 262

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    ladle. It has a strainer bottom and a long handle on it.
    When any person comes in when churning they generally say good luck to your work and they say they never should go out again until they would give the churn a brash because it is not lucky.
    The buttermilk is used for baking bread and to give to the calves and pigs and we drink some of it ourselves. In hot weather the hens get some to drink also.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Frances Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newmills, Co. Donegal