School: An Cnocán Bán, Áth Treasa (roll number 12999)
- Location:
- Cummery Connell (South), Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Ríordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0350, Page 418
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- (continued from previous page)the cream to pass through.
- Churning was done very much long ago, but nowadays it is not done atall, as people send their milk to the creamery, or others make butter with a barrel,which is easier than with a churn.
A churn is round in shape, It is wider at the bottom than at the top. It is straight down about a half foot and it gets wider from that down . The staff is going down through the middle of it.
The parts of a churn are the lid, the staff, and the cup. The staff is a long stout stick fitted into a circular piece of wood about 12 inches thick and about seven inches in diameter. The staff is struck up and down. The lid is a piece of timber which is put down on top of the churn with a
( wil) round hole in the middle of it, where the staff goes down through.
The cup is a cup -shaped piece of wood with a hole in bottom put down upside- down over staff and resting(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nora Angland
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Lenihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Meentinny West, Co. Cork
