School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Baile Shéamais, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 526
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- There were no earthenware crocks in my young days. Oakeen tubs (keelers) for holding milk and oak churns for churning. We had eight cows - we churned every day in Summer - and I often churned twice on a Saturday. We churned all the milk; my mother, God rest her soul, always thought the butter was firmer and better that way, than by taking off the "top" and churning it alone.
He scrubbed the vessels with heath - there were no scrubbing brushes that time.
I boiled a big pot of water and I 'scalded' the keelers and I scrubbed them until they were white - inside and out - as oak could be made.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Shéamais, Co. Liatroma
