School: Star of the Sea, Glengivney (roll number 12334)

Location:
Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Brian Mac Giolla Easbuic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 219

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  1. Few people realize when drinking butter milk or eating butter the amount of work there is in procuring butter. We have a churn about three feet deep and about twenty inches wide. It is all made of oak. It holds about forty gallons and was made in Belfast about twenty years ago and is in good condition yet. In summer we churn the full of it three times every week and in winter according to the amount of milk we have. It takes at least two people to churn as ten or fifteen minutes are long enough for one to churn at once. It takes about an hour to churn when the churn is full. Sometimes
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dan Brennan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mossyglen, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    George Brennan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mossyglen, Co. Donegal