School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Kilmurry
- XML Page 130
- XML “Churning”
- XML “Churning”
- XML “Churning”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)are able to get back the butter by that means.
- The churn is ten years of age. There is a number on the lid of the churn 809.
- The butter is gathered together on the top of the buttermilk with a wooden trencher. It is lifted into a wooden butter tub with the trencher. The buttermilk is then squeezed out of it. Then it is rinsed and salted. After that the salt is beaten through the butter with two spades. It is then weighed out in pounds and prints. My churn is 24 1/4" long and 18 1/2" wide.
- Collector
- Gretta Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bracklin Big, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Bracklin Big, Co. Offaly