School: Caiseal Seanachain (roll number 15170)
- Location:
- Cashelshanaghan, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Ghiolla Fhaolain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1086, Page 1
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- Churn – 4 feet high and 1 ½ feet wide in bottom and (high) top. It is 5 years old. The parts of it are the lid, the body and the dash. There is a mark on it. Butter is made once each week in winter and twice in summer.
My father or mother do [sic] the churning. If strangers come in, they don’t help. The churning takes about an hour. It is done by hand. The churn dash is always moved upwards and downwards, to gather the butter into one lump. Water is poured in during the process of churning to make the butter leave the milk. The butter is lifted out with a butter spade and … into a dish, then, it is washed and haired and made into prints.
The buttermilk is given to the calves.
- Collector
- Maggie Kilpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ardrumman, Co. Dhún na nGall
