School: Baile Aodha (B.), Inis (roll number 13418)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Mathúna
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- In every farm house a churn is kept. Without butter we can scarcely live so we must have churns. We use a churn every Monday or some Tuesdays Our churn is an end over end one.
A frame stands on the ground on four legs. An ordinary barrell with two handles is laid on the frame.
Most small farmers who have but a few cows keep a staff churn. Our churn can make seventy two pounds of butter. It takes at least one hour and a half to make the full of our churn of butter. A staff churn can make about thirty pounds of butter.
- Collector
- Sylvie Barrett
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tom Meere
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Kilmoraun, Co. Clare
