School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)
- Location:
- Gleann Tóchair, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)will. The old saying of the stranger at this time is "May God bless your work".
It takes about an hour to churn. Some cold water is then thrown in to help to gather the grains of butter.
A wooden dish is got and the woman of the house lifts the butter off the top of the milk and puts it in the dish. She washes it, salts it and hairs it. She takes the blunt edge of the knife and runs it through the butter so as to take the hairs out of it. Then she makes it up into various shapes.
When the hairy butter is taken off the knife it is stuck on the wall above the cow house door. It is used for greasing carts and wheelbarrows.
The buttermilk is used for feeding calves and pigs and also for making bread.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susie Mac Cole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleann Tóchair, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Eliza Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Gleann Tóchair, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Ellen Toland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleann Tóchair, Co. Dhún na nGall
