School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 04_037
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- The cows are milked morning and evening. The milk is strained into shallow pails. After twelve hours the cream is separated and put into a milk pan. When this is filled its left for a few days until the cream gets thick and fit for churning. Then the churn is prepared by cleaning and scrubbing it with boiling water. The churn dash, the lid and the handle are also scalded.
Our churn is a small round machine churn. It is painted white. The mouth of it is one foot square. It is worked by an iron handle and a four(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Mc Nicholas
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
