School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)

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1. Churning (continued)

   

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   it in the dish. Then she washes the buttermilk out of the butter, and then she puts salt in it.
   My mother puts some of the buttermilk in a tub and leaves the rest in the churn. She gives the calves the buttermilk out of the tub and she makes bread with the butter milk out of the churn.
   The old people would let no person out of the house with a lighted pipe or anything lighted while they were churning.
   It is unlucky to sing while you are churning
   The old people long ago would think the milk would not churn into butter if any person cam into the house or went out of the house without saying, “God bless the work.”

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   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí eacnamaíocha
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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick J. Gallen

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Meenreagh, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Informant

   Mrs Mary A. Gallen

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Meenreagh, Co. Dhún na nGall