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School: Cnoc an Chuilinn, An Ráth Mhór (roll number 9871)

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Caherbarnagh, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Nóra, Bean Uí Dhuinnín
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  1. Butter-Making Fifty Years Ago

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    Buttermaking fifty years ago.
    We go back to the days when every farmer had a dairy - a small thatched house usually isolated from the other farm buildings, with whitewashed walls and nicely sanded floor. Around by the walls inside were "stillings" or stands, whereon the wodden "keelers" were placed. "Keelers" were shallow, wooden vessels, circular in shape, about five inches in depth and thirty inches in diameter. They were
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán O Duinín
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48
    Address
    Hollymount, Co. Cork