1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Killyconnan (B.)

School: Killyconnan (B.)

Location:
Killyconnan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Kearney
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 102

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 102

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Killyconnan (B.)
  2. XML Page 102
  3. XML “Churning”
  4. XML “Churning”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Churning (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    When the butter is on the top of the milk it is lifted into a basin by means of a wooden plate and made into rolls by means of a wooden spoon.
    There is a superstition that the "witch-woman" could take away the butter. It has been known that after churning for hours no butter came on the milk. Buttermilk is used for making bread, for drinking and for feeding calves and pigs.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  2. Churning

    Share Share Post
    I have a churn at home. It is between two and three feet high. It is about one and a half feet wide at the top and about a few inches wider at the bottom. The sides of it are round. The churn is about fourteen or fifteen years old. The various parts of it are,
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Andrew Smith
    Informant
    Mrs Patrick Smith
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Knockanoark, Co. Cavan