School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 301
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- (continued from previous page)All the big people help to churn the milk. If a stranger came in they should churn the milk for a minute and if they did not they are supposed to bring the butter.
The people churn the milk with their hands not with their feet. The dash works up and down. They know when the milk is churned by lifting up the lid and when the butter is gathered on the top of the milk the churning is finished.
The butter is taken up with the dash and it is put into the butter dish.
Then the buttermilk is take out of it, and it is washed well.
After that the water is take out of it and it is (washed) clanned well. It is then put on a plate.
The people drink the buttermilk, give it to the pigs and give some to the neighbours.
It is a custom to put the sign of the cross with the dash over the churn when it is made.
- Collector
- Pauline Molloy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
