School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
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- " A BUTTER-PRINT " ( Sketch )Made about eighty years ago by a Turner who used to come to Dunmanway. Use to make " pats " of butter. Air vent at foot of handle. The turner also made pigíní, eggcups, buckets skimming dishes.The Pigín was used as a drinking vessel. Was about 8 in. high and 6 across
The Skimming Dish was a shallow saucer-like vessel used for skimming the cream off the " keelers " of milk. The keelers were in use until fifteen or twenty years ago -
tubs about eight inches high and two-and-a-half feet in diameter.
