School: Druim Garlaigh (roll number 11701)
- Location:
- Drumgarly, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Estér Ní Dhubhaghain
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- (continued from previous page)and put into a wooden basin and the butter milk is squeezed out of it. It is then salted and well mixed and washed thoroughly with cold water. Then it is made into [?] or rolls with butter patters. The buttermilk is used for baking, feeding calves, and pigs. If a man goes into a house where the people are churning he is not allowed to light his pipe.
Long ago if a person went to his neighbours house for a live coal to light his fire and the family were churning he would not get it.- Collector
- Florence Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Genagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- George Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Genagh, Co. Monaghan