School: Baile an Bhile (B.) (roll number 12195)
- Location:
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John F. Higgins
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- (continued from previous page)top of the milk. Some people put a strainer down in the churn and if the flakes of butter can be lifted up in it the butter is made then. The butter is taken with butter spades. It is left on a big dish and it is salted. Then it is made into a roll or prints. The buttermilk is used for making cakes of bread. ~Some of it is given in pigs. There was no story in the district about making a churning.Information from: Mary Lyons
Belisker,
Brickens,
Claremorris.Collector: James Lyons
Belisker,
Brickens,
Claremorris. - We have churn at home. the name of it is the drum churn. The height of it is twenty inches. It is about twenty inches on the bottom and on the top. Butter is made once a week in winter, and twice a week in summer. The people of the house always make(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Gilmore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brickeens, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Gilmore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brickeens, Co. Mayo