School: Lagganstown, New Inn (roll number 13705)
- Location:
- Baile an Logáin Íochtarach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Eoghan Mac Cárthaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 178
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Lagganstown, New Inn
- XML Page 178
- XML “Butter-Making”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Long ago the people made their own butter from the cream as there were no creameries. The cows were milked night and morning and the milk was set in pans for about a night or so. In the morning the milk was skimmed with a skimmer and it was put into a churning barrel where it was churned till it became into butter. Then it was taken out of the churn and the milk was taken from the butter. The butter was washed three times and then it was salted and made into pounds. It was taken to the market where it was sold for eightpence per pound and a shilling per pound was got for the best butter. The buttermilk was given to pigs and calves.
