School: Easgéiphtine (B.) (roll number 2039)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Eoin
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- ChurningVery few people in these districts do their own churning nowadays. All the farmers send their milk to the local creamery. The churn used is about one foot and a half high and about one foot based. It is like a circle placed on a base with an spining on the top, and in the inside the beaters are like those of a windmill. The "top" is taken off the milk every day and put aside in a basin, then when enough is collected it is put into the churn and churned. It takes about one and a half before the cream is turned into butter. There is water left when the butter is made, it is a mixture of milk and water this is called "Butter Milk". In America the Limerick exiles are called the "Buttermilk Drinkers".
- Collector
- Stephen Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- James Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- ChurningWe have a churn at home. It is about two feet high, it is a one to lay on the table when using it. It is a round one. It is about fifty years old, We make butter in it every week. It is my mother who makes it. When it is full it takes a half an hour to make it. There is an old saying, if a person comes in when making it they should help or else they will take it away on their back.
