School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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- We have a churn at home and it is 3 1/2 feet tall and it is 23 inches wide on the top and 25 on the bottom.The sides of it are round and it is about 4 years old.There is no mark on the sides or bottom, and butter is made with it twice a week in the Summer and once a week in the winter.My mother does the churning and if any stranger comes in during the churning he takes a brash afraid he might bring away the butter with him.The churning takes from a half hour to an hour and it is done by hand up and down.The people know when the butter is made when the dash comes out of the churn clean.When the churning is nearly finised the people put cold water into the churn to gather the butter.Then the buttermilk is given pigs and to the calves, and it is also used for making bread and gruel.
- Collector
- William Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumgownagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Loughlin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumgownagh, Co. Leitrim
