School: Cratloe (C.)
- Location:
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shitric
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 138
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- In olden times in Cratloe everyone used to make butter at home, but now-a -days some people take the milk to the creamery and get creamery butter.
The churns of long a go were very different from the churns of the present day. The churns of long a go used to be very wide at the bottom and it got narrower as it went up along. There was a staff to hop up and down, there was also a board with holes in it joined to the staff.
There was also a little cup on top of the board to keep the cream from coming out.
The churns now-a -days are round with handles to twist around and there is a lid on top.
When the butter is made it is put into a timber keeler and washed well in spring water, when it is finished it is made into pounds and laid in to white butter-paper ready for the market.
- Collector
- Brigid Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Portdrine, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs T. Carroll
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Portdrine, Co. Clare
