School: An Cnocán Bán, Áth Treasa (roll number 12999)
- Location:
- Cummery Connell (South), Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Ríordáin
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- (continued from previous page)on lid of the churn. Any cream splashing up between staff and lid stays under cup.
When the butter would be nearly made they used twist the staff round the churn to gather the butter off the sides. It was the custom if a person came in while the churning was going on to work the churn a while. On taking the staff to give a stroke or two he used say '' God bless all here''
- Churns were used very mush long ago but they are not used nowadays. There were couple of kinds of churns there were barrel churns and standing churns. These were used for making butter.
The parts of a churn are the churn staff, the lid of the churn, and the churn cup. Women that used make the butter in the barrel churn. When the butter was made the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Hannah O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Miss Katie Murphy
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cummery Connell (South), Co. Cork
