School: Kilcomreagh (roll number 9429)
- Location:
- Kilcumreragh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: B. Hickey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 171
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- ChurningWe have a churn at home. It is round in the sides and it is on a stand,. It is about nine years old. Butter is made once a week in winter and twice a week in summer. There is an old custom attached to churning. When people come in when churning is going on they say "God Bless the work", and take hold of the handle and turn it for a few minutes. There are little wooden boards for taking butter off the churn and they are called hands. Churning is done in about half an hour. The churning is done by hand. There is a little round glass on the lid of the churn and by that glass you will know when the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolatoor, Co. Westmeath
