School: Urlingford (B.)
- Location:
- Urlingford, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Mac Coitir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0869, Page 277
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- (continued from previous page)cylindrical in form. It is about twenty years old.
There is a vent hole in the side, and this is secured by a plug, which has to be removed occasionally to release the gas, which forms inside. The number of churnings weekly depends on the number of cows kept. The man or boy in the house generally does the churning.
Visitors during churning to country houses always assisted at the work and so strong was the prejudice against failure to comply with the custon that the visitor neglecting to perform would very likely be reminded of his mistake.
The time taken to churn varies from twenty minutes in Summer to forty five minutes in Winter. In the old fashion churn the dash is moved up and down.
An experienced person can tell by the sound to half a minute when the butter is made. Cold water is used in Summer for churning, tepid or warm(continues on next page)
