School: Mercy Convent, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. M. Clement
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- Churning is very common and it takes place very often in our town. Friday is considered a very lucky day for churning. There are numerous kinds of churns, a hand-churn, a dash-churn, a barrel-churn and a horse-churn. A hand-churn is one that has a handle on one side and you turn the handle until the milk is churned. There is also a little hole below the handle and there is a cork kept in the hole and when the butter is made you pull the cork and the buttermilk comes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Conlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Conlon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford