School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)
- Location:
- Ballynaberney, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: C. E. Kidd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 207
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- 207ChurningWe have a churn at home and it is about a foot and a half wide, and the sides are oval. I do not know how old it is. The parts are called the body, the handle, the lid and the glass. The churn is placed in a wooden frame and the handle turns it end over end. Aunt Mary churns twice in the Summer and once in Winter. The churning takes a quarter of an hour. Strangers do not come to help. The churning is done by means of hand. The butter is taken off by a wooden spade an put into a butter dish.
It is washed three times, and then salted. It is made into pound rolls.
If anyone comes in when Aunt Mary is churning she says "Take a heat". It is believed that if you do not "take a heat" at the churning you will take the butter.D. Swaine
Ballycarney
Information recd. from father
Alexander Swaine (See front page)
- Collector
- D. Swaine
- Address
- Ballycarney, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Alexander Swaine
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycarney, Co. Wexford
- We have a churn at home. It is about thirty inches high and twenty ins wide. This churn is twenty four(continues on next page)
