School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 156
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- In this part of the country the people send their milk to the creamery unless in a few houses where the people churn it and sell it in the shops.
Long ago there were no creameries and all the milk were churned at home. There is a big wooden churn in our house. It is narrow at the bottom wide in the middle and narrow at the mouth. There is a churn dash with it also. This is a long wooden handle and wooden head with holes in it.
My grandmother often told me that she often walked into Ballyhaise with a big firkin of butter and sold it at one and twopence per pound.
If you went into a house when the cream was being put into the churn it is said that if you looked at it the milk would not yield half the butter.
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- Collector
- Brigid Mc Donald
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr P. Mc Donald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Claragh, Co. Cavan
