School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)
- Location:
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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- We have a small hand churn at home. One of my neighbours has a barrel churn. It is made up of the barrel, the stand, the door, and the dashers.
There is no mark on it. The butter is made once a week in the winter and it is made twice a week in the summer. It is a hand churn. If strangers come into the house when the people of the house are churning they must do some of the churning because it is said if they did not do it the butter would be short the size of their head.
In summer if the cream is very hot water is put into it. There is a peg in the churn and when the butter is made the peg is pulled and the buttermilk is let out. Then water is put into the churn to wash the butter. When it is done the butter is taken out with butter hands and it is salted. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Patrick T. Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockavoreen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Bing
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork