1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Smithstown, Castlecomer

School: Smithstown, Castlecomer (roll number 14626)

Location:
Smithstown, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Mhórdha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 261

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 261

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Smithstown, Castlecomer
  2. XML Page 261
  3. 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

  1. Churning

    Share Share Post
    We have no Churn at home but there is a Churn with a neighbours who has a dash-churn. It is two or three years old, the butter is made once or twice in the week. The people from round the district if they came in when the churning is going on, would help in the churning. The churning would go on for twenty minutes or half an hour. The dash-churn is worked by the hand, it is worked up and down. The people know when they would see the butter on the top of the milk that the Churn is made.
    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
    Patrick Brennan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Brennan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    48
    Address
    Smithstown, Co. Kilkenny