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   fork with a big round thing on the end of it and the handle comes up and out through the hole in the lid and some one would take the handle in their hands and pound it up and down and that is the way they used to churn in olden times.

   Written by Eithne Kearney Baltrasna Oldcastle
   told by my mother

   

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2. Churning

   

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   (2) The churns that are used now are different from the churns that were used long ago. The sort of a churn that we have now is a fairly small churn that is put up on a table when one is churning. It has round sides and a square head and inside there is a dash which is made of wood with a lot of fairly thick sticks going crosswards. The churn has a little steel nob inside which the dash fits in on for there is a hole in the side of the dash and it is caught in the other side by the handle of the churn which is also made of steel and when you turn the handle round the dash goes

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mollie Mc Cabe

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Murrens, Co. Meath