School: Currin
- Location:
- Corran, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Liam Ó Léighinn
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- (continued from previous page)making bread (wetting it) and for making porridge. It is given to young calves at feeding time and people also drink it.
When a person comes into a house while churning is going on he always takes a brash. If he did not it is supposed he would take the butter away with him.
(N.B. a Brash means a hand at he churning) ([?] ní [?], leor an [?])
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The thing the butter is mixed with is called a Trencher.
In some houses the milk is put in daily into the churn and when it gets thick it is churned. Some people have a churning machine to churn with. It is worked by an ass or a horse.
N.B. Cream is never skimmed or seperated from milk in this locality. And just before people go to creamery when all the cows are calved butter is made twice a day.
- Informant
- Teresa Mc Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lissanover, Co. Cavan
