School: Drumandoora N.S. (roll number 12123)

Location:
Drumandoora, Co. Clare
Teachers:
Liam Mac Aodhaire Liam Airley
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592F, Page 06_033

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592F, Page 06_033

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Drumandoora N.S.
  2. XML Page 06_033
  3. XML “Folklore - 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

  1. 33
    21st June 1938.
    Folklore.
    We have a churn at home named the dash churn which is worked by a hand up and down.
    Its height is about three feet and the width of the top is a foot, and bottom 1.6".
    There are many kinds of churns the Dash ,churn, the Barrel churn, the end overe end churn ,and many others.In Summer time people churn twice a week and in winter once a week.
    if a man came in whilst the churn was been made he should get a dreas.
    Churning.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Cunningham
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killanena, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Michael Cunningham
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killanena, Co. Clare