School: Cill Bhonáin, Droichead na Bandan (roll number 1271)
- Location:
- Kilbonane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Briain
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- Butter was made in my district long ago. Now nearly all the milk is sent to the local creamery. The people had churns to make the butter. Some people had separators to separate the cream from the milk, but others skimmed the milk.
We have one churn at home. It is twenty years old. The names of some of the parts are the handles, the beaters, a rubber ring etc. The only mark that is on the churn is the makers name. We make no butter now. When we were churning, butter was made twice a week in the summer and once a week in the winter.
If strangers came in during the churning they might help in making the butter especially if it was very heavy. The churning is done in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Monica Meaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Edward Lehane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilbane, Co. Cork
