School: Headfort
- Location:
- Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0999, Page 136
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- (continued from previous page)If a neighbour came in while the work was in progress he was asked to "put luck on it" by taking a "brash" or taking a hand in the churning. After quarter of an hour a "break" appeared when tiny lumps of butter collected on top. Additional hot water was added from time to time to "hurry it up" It was indeed a very labourious task in those days because they had no thermometers and in the still earlier times the cream was never heated except by the churning so that the awful task, which often occurred twice daily, lasted for two hours.
- Collector
- Sean O Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lislea, Co. an Chabháin
