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School: Crieve (roll number 4369)

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Creeve, Co. Monaghan
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E. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 235

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    the cows have been "blinked", certain people coming in at churning time are considered unlucky. The butter is lifted out on a strainer and put into a wooden dish and washed with cold, clean, fresh water to take the milk out of it then salt is mixed through it and made into measkins. The buttermild is used for feeding calves and also is drunk by the people and used in breadmaking.
    Lily Branyan
    Listraor
    Ballybay P.O.
    co Monaghan
    Information received from my father age 70, also my mother age 34 years.
    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
    Lily Branyan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Listroar, Co. Monaghan