In my days growing up near Glangevlin, in Ballinaglera, most families churned their own milk. This gave them their own supply of butter, and the butter milk was fed to the pig and young calves.
If you were to go in the neighbor’s home when they were churning, you would go up to the churn and take the churn dash and move it up and down for a short period, then turn it over to the husband or wife that were using it. This custom goes back hundreds of years, and we still did it in my youth. Before radio and television we went out to the neighbor’s homes at night (it was called rambling) some nights there would be four or five ramblers there. The conversation was usually, the weather, ghost stories, and the bringing of the butter or taking of the butter.
Go
walk : Thousands of years of weathering have sculpted the
rocks at the top of Cuilcagh Mountain into extraordinary shapes, writes
Deirdre D avys
YOU WOULD be hard put nowadays to
find anyone heading for the hills not armed to the teeth with
“high-tech” rain gear, all-weather backpacks, walking poles and God
knows what other paraphernalia the marketing people throw at us. What a
joy it is, then, to find how little of this gear we need to climb
Cuilcagh Mountain, on the Cavan- Fermanagh border, on a fine summer’s
day.
A West Cavan Memory - One man who strove to make a difference at a difficult time
Written by Pat (‘Mickey Oiney’) McGovern
Tuesday, 06 July 2010 13:19
DURING the years post World War II west Cavan communities, in particular Glangevlin, were struggling to eke out a living. Employment was non-existent. Emigration for those able to avail of it was the only option.
In Glangevlin Terry McManus made herculean efforts to break the mould. He initially did a milk round in Manorhamilton Creamery and jointly managed a general grocery store with his wife, even eventually opening a second general store.
Being enterprising and well aware of the pressing need to create employment, he somehow secured contracts for wooden boxes to wholesale firms, mainly in Dublin. He quickly had a building constructed and the necessary equipment installed.
This
makes special little cakes, ideal for parties or visiting children. For a
chocolate version replace 25 g (1 oz) of the flour with cocoa powder, then fill
with apricot jam and a butter cream made with butter, icing sugar and orange or
lemon juice.
ROCK OF AGES Walkers on a formation on
Cuilcagh.