School: Sceichín an Rince, Cloichín an Mhargaidh
- Location:
- Skeheenaranky, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Dómhnall Ua Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0573, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)Long ago the people used to set the new milk in keelers and when it would be fit to skim, the poeple used to skim it into a cool. The milk that they would set in the evening it used to be ready the evening after to skim. The people used to chrun every five days. They used to churn it in a standing-churn. They used to sell it in Clonmel and Mitchelstown. The people that bought the butter in Mitchelstown was Mrs Hayes and Mr Hanrahan. The people used to sell the butter in firchins, there was sixty three lbs in every firchin. Three people used to join together in filling the firchins.
- churns. it was a very high churn, the lower part of it was wider the top. This was worked by a long stick. when the butter would be amde, it would come up to the top of the churns.
- Informant
- Mary Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Coolagarranroe, Co. Tipperary
