School: Killesk
- Location:
- Killesk, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Margt. Sutton
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- Our churn at home is about four feet high and one foot and a half wide at the top and bottom. It is about thirty years old. Butter is made once each week at home. Different members of the family do the churning. The churning takes different times to be finished. The churning is done by hand. People know when the butter is made by looking at the glass on the top of the churn. If the glass is clear the butter is made.
The milk is let off the butter and the butter is lifted out of the churn It is put into a keeler for to salt it. Long ago people used to go and help each other in the churning. There was an old superstitious belief in the district that some people were able by some unknown power to take the butter.
- Collector
- Nellie O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockea, Co. Wexford
