School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 131
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- The glass of the churn is always clear or some people know by the rattle of the milk in the churn when the butter is done. Our churn is five years old.
- Collector
- Peg Scully
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Fairfield, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Pat Gilligan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Fairfield, Co. Offaly
- There is a glass on the lid about the size of a half-crown. It is known by this glass when the churning is finished. When the glass is clear the churning is finished. The cream has to be heated.
- The churn we have is a one cow's churn. It is a foot and two inches in length and one.
