School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)is a patent taken out for a fair in a certain district or town no fair can be legally held within a radius of six or seven miles from this appointed spot.
- In recent years churning is not carried on in the home in this district as butter is made in the creameries instead; however some of the farmers held to the custom until quite recently. It was a very interesting process. The barrel was on a stand about three feet high with a handle on each end of it which served to turn the beaters on the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daniel Burns
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Lucey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Lisnacuddy, Co. Cork