School: Legaginny
- Location:
- Legaginny, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Cárthaigh
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- We have a churn at home. Even though we send the milk to the creamery we have to keep some of the milk at home and chorus it to make butter for the use of the house-hold. The churn is about four feet in height. It is thirty inches wide at the top and bottom. The sides are round. It is about five years old. The various parts are called the crib, the dash, and the lid. There is no mark on the side and lid of our churn. Butter is made twice each week in summer and once every week in winter. We all help with the churning. Stranger who come in during churning help at the work. There is an old belief that if the stranger did not leave his hand on the dash there is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Riain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corlismore, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Máire Bean Ni Mullagáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corlismore, Co. Cavan
