School: Ceann Locha (roll number 11749)
- Location:
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Matilda Bolster
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 385
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ceann Locha
- XML Page 385
- 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
- There are a lot of old churns in the country.
Most of the churns were made by carpenters dwelling in the same town or district as the people.
Butter is made oftener in summer than winter, because the weather is warm in summer, and the milk gets thicks quicker.
When anyone is churning and a stranger comes in, she gets the stranger to help her, as it is believed that when a stranger come in, and goes out again without giving a help with the churning that he brings the butter with him. When the milk is churned, the butter is lifted out with two wooden spades and put into a wooden dish.
The milk that is taken out of the churn is called buttermilk.
Bread is baked with it, and it is also used as a drink.
- Collector
- Matilda Bolster
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
