School: Cúl Seachtaine
- Location:
- Coolshaghtena, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Caitlín Nic Dhonnchadha
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- Churning
My mother does the churning usually and if she churns on Saturday we help her.
If strangers come in during churning they take the dash and churn for a few minutes. It is an old saying that the person might take the butter. You should never bring a coal out in a pipe while a person is churning because you might bring the butter out of the churn.
The churning takes a half hour at least. The dash in our churn is moved up(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gretta Gavigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolshaghtena, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs J. Gavigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Coolshaghtena, Co. Roscommon