Volume: CBÉ 0190

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   “When people are churning it anyone come into the dairy that they should take a hand at the churn...”

   

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   work." There was one woman down in Bannow that used to travel around and she would go into the dairies and she wouldn't ever take a hand at the churn and when she would go the churn would do no good. She went into a certain house one day and the churning was going on and the woman of the house asked her to take a hand at the churn and she wouldn't. So the woman of the house put the coulter of the plough in the fire and reddened it and gave the old woman a good burning, so she never went into a dairy afterwards.

   There is some harm connected with the coulter of the plough as regards churning. Sometimes when the butter wouldn't be "coming" the burn

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   • Bridget Francis