School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 156
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- We have a hand churn at home. It is turned with a handle and a dash inside it. The breadth of the churn is about nine inches. We churn twice a week in the summer and once a week in the Winter. In olden times the people would not let anyone light their pipe when they would be churning.
- Collector
- Patrick Scully
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmurragh, Co. Offaly
- We have a churn at home. We churn twice every week. The make of the churn is called an end over end churn. There are four screws holding the lid on it.
