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School: O' Connor Don

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Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
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Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 043

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    witches would bring all the butter. The churn is done by hand.
    People know when the churning is made because you can see small lumps of butter floating on the top of the butter-milk. In winter their is hot water put in the churning when it is nearly made and in summer their is cold water put in it. It takes from quarter of an hour to half an hour to make it. When it is made it is taken out and washed and salted and made into a roll or prints. The butter-milk is used in different ways some of it is used for making cakes and the rest given to the pigs.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáitlín Ní Húiggín
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonconra, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Higgins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonconra, Co. Roscommon