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School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)

Location:
Derrymore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire Uí hOistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138D, Page 09_015

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  1. The Churn (continued)

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    Is done by hand. When you are churning the churn dash is going up and down and when the churning is done they put the churn dash around to gather the butter.
    When the people are churning they will joy let out a thing out of the house. They know when the butter is made when it does come to the top of the milk. When the people are going to churn they put a coal out of the fire under the churn.
    The various parts of the churn are the causin the churn dash the lid and the clairin churn churn churn around around around
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás Ó Tónra
    Gender
    Male