School: Drom an Eargail, Áth Treasna (roll number 10361)
- Location:
- Dromanarrigle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)it belongs to Mrs OSullivan. We have no spinning wheel.
- There are two kinds of churns, in former days, a barrel churn and a standing churn.
The standing churn is worked by a staff A staff is a round block of timber, and flat in the end, when the cream is put in that churn, the cover is put on and on the centre of the cover is a round hole to enable the handle of the staff up through, and by that means you could pull up and down the staff which is about two feet in hight than the top of the churn.
The churn that is used generally a barrel churn which is closed on the two ends there is a axel attached to each end. The churn is placed on a stand, resting on the axel on the end of each axel there is a handle attached to give man power to work it in the stand inside on the churn there are two beaters to enable the cream to strike against in the middle of the body of the churn(continues on next page)
