School: An Clochar, Carraig Thuathail
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Celestine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0385, Page 306
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- We have a churn at home. It is four feet tall and three feet at the top and bottom. The sides of the churn are round. It is about twelve years old. The various parts of the churn are the beaters and the ventilator. There is no mark on the sides or bottom of the churn. The butter is made twice a week in Summer and once a week in Winter. The work.men do the churning. Strangers who come in during the churning do not help. The churning takes from half an hour to an hour and it is done by the hand. They keep rolling the churn till the butter is made. When the glass at the side of the churn clears they know the butter is made.
They take the butter out of the churn with a wooden spade and wash it with water then they salt and draw it and make it into pounds.The butter milk is used for making cakes and is also given to the pigs.
- Collector
- Bridie Mc Grath
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Longstown, Co. Cork
