School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0128
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- (continued from previous page)The bottom and the lower part of the body is called the chime and the top of the churn is called the peck. The body of the churn is made of starves of oak, fixed after other in a round circle and hoops of iron revited tightly around them to keep them in place, an oak lid with a piece of wood for a handle for setting the lid down in to the churn and a round hole in the centre of the lid allows the churndash to go up and down till the milk is churned
- Once upon a time a woman came in to a house where there was another woman churning, she did not say "Good luck." When she went away the other woman could get no butter(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John P. Keirns
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigans Upper, Co. Sligo
