School: Beanntraighe (3) (roll number 10548)
- Location:
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Íde Hurst
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0281, Page 199
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- Churning.
We have a churn athome.
It is on a stand and is a Barrel-churn.
The sides are round.
It is eighteen years old.
The different parts are:- the beaters inside, the staves and the hoops which are on the outside of the churn.
There is no mark on the side or bottom of the churn.
Butter is made twice a week in the Summer and once a week in Winter.
My mother does the churning.
Strangers who come in during the churning help them at the work because it is said that fairies would come and take away the butter out of the churn.
It takes a half-hour to churn.
It is done by hand.
There is a glass in the end of the churn and when that is clear the butter is made.
Water is put in during the process to make the butter hard.
Then when it is made the butter is taken out with a butter shovel, put into dishes to be washed.
When it is washed it is salted and packed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Draper
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
