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School: Park (roll number 9717)

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Kilclammon, Co. Wexford
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0898, Page 059

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    bottom. When the glass on the lid of the churn is clear the butter is churned. Then the farmers wife pours in water to wash out the churn.
    There was an old woman in County Wexford and she used to take the butter by skimming the well on the first day of May. "Some for me none for ye I take the butter for the whole year round". So the farmers then would be churning for an hour and they could not churn. So they put a coulter in the churn and then the first woman who came in was the person to take the buttter.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Hickey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mylerspark, Co. Wexford