School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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- We have a barrel churn at home. It was made in Wales, by a man named LLewlys. It is three feet high and three and a half feet wide. There is a little round piece of glass in the cover of the churn, and when the butter is made, there is no milk on the glass.
Superstitions
There are a great many superstitions connected with churns. It is said that if a person was making a churn, and if some one
- Collector
- Gearóid Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crughwill, Co. Clare
