School: Stackallen (roll number 1309)
- Location:
- Stackallan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: P.T. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 075
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- (continued from previous page)put the crocks of milk beside the fire the way the heat would help to sower the milk and so it takes the milk far longer to churn in the winter than in the Summer. The churning around here is done by hand and the butter-milk is used for making bread and for feeding pigs and calves.
The two wooden things that the people make the butter with are called butter spades. The thing that turns round inside the churn is called a threncher and the wooden spade with the hollow for lifting up the butter is called
- Collector
- Thomas Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gernonstown, Co. Meath
