School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gort an Bheithe, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- (continued from previous page)called the cup down along the handle to keep it from spattering. Then the dash up and down until it was made. Before the churn was made the cream would get very watery and make in to cruds. This they called cracking. The lid was then taken off and the dash was twisted around and round until it was all gathered to gether.
Then when the cream used to scareh[?] the used make it in a tin can or a bottle. Now-adays the churns are different for the small farmers they have small churns which you would leave on the table and twist the handle around and round. For the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Doire Fada, Co. an Chláir
