School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)
- Location:
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)Our churn is about four feet high. It is about three feet wide at the bottom and three feet five inches wide at the top. It is fourteen years old. The top part of the churn is called the crib.
Butter is made twice a week in Summer and once a week in Winter. Before we churn the milk is soured and thickened in a crock or milk tub. The churn and dash are then washed and scalded and the milk emptied into the churn. Then the churn dash is put in. In the winter hot water is poured into the churn to heat the milk before beginning. The milk is beaten up and down in the churn with the dash. If strangers come in during the churning they always give a hand to show their good(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susie Mac Cole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Eliza Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Ellen Toland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
