School: Cohaw (C )
- Location:
- Cohaw, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ní Aodha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 262
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cohaw (C )
- XML Page 262
- XML “Churning”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- We have a churn at home. It is about two or three feet tall and it is about two feet wide both at top and bottom. The sides are round. It is about ten years old. The various parts are called by these names the lid, cop and dash. There is a little mark on the side of the churn, to show you when the lid is straight on it.
The butter is made twice a week in the Summer and once a week in the Winter. Every one takes a brash for about three or four minutes if it is very heavy but if it is light one could do it herself. If any stranger came in during churning time they always take a brash for luck. It takes an hour in the Winter time as a rule and a half an hour in the Summer time.
The churning is done by hand. When you do the churning by hand the dash is moved upwards and downwards, and near the end of it the churn dash is moved round so as to gather up the butter. When the churn-dash(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Fox
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corraweelis, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Fox
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Corraweelis, Co. Cavan
