School: An Cnocán Bán, Áth Treasa (roll number 12999)

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   on lid of the churn. Any cream splashing up between staff and lid stays under cup.
   When the butter would be nearly made they used twist the staff round the churn to gather the butter off the sides. It was the custom if a person came in while the churning was going on to work the churn a while. On taking the staff to give a stroke or two he used say '' God bless all here''

   

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2. Churning

   

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   Churns were used very mush long ago but they are not used nowadays. There were couple of kinds of churns there were barrel churns and standing churns. These were used for making butter. The parts of a churn are the churn staff, the lid of the churn, and the churn cup. Women that used make the butter in the barrel churn. When the butter was made the

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Hannah O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Miss Katie Murphy

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   60

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Cummery Connell (South), Co. Cork