School: Tullaroan (B.) (roll number 1302)
- Location:
- Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Daniel Brennan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 114
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- Churning was working that employed people long ago because it took a lot of time and was hard work.
I never saw a churn but I heard Mr. M. Phelan say that it was the shape of an ordinary churn worked up and down by a dash. It was an hour's work sometimes in winter because it needs heat to make butter.
When anyone came in they had to give the handle a few "dashes". It was an old belief that unless their neighbour who came in while they were churning took a hand in the work they would take the butter.
People knew when the butter was made by a hole and the butter came up with the splashing. Thon the butter had to be washed and salted
- Collector
- Patrick Hynes
- Gender
- Male
