School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 348
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- (continued from previous page)all gathered on the top of the milk.
Then the dash and joggler and lid are rinsed down with cold water and left aside.
The trencher and hand's are got and scalded and salted and put into cold water to cool them.
Then the wooden pail with cold water in it is got, and the butter is taken off the churn in to it with the trencher and if there are any small pieces of butter left in the churn they are taken off with a butter strainer.
The butter is rinsed several times until the water runs off clear.
It is then salted and made up in prints or rolls or whatever you take to put it in.
- Collector
- Ena Woods
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboghil, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Woods
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboghil, Co. Leitrim
