School: Ballyheaffy (C.), Kilworth (roll number 10660)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Mary Butler
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 265
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: Ballyheaffy (C.), Kilworth
- XML Page 265
- XML “Churning”
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
- (continued from previous page)the butter. She makes it into a big roll then and puts it into a box. She puts butter paper around it and sells it at the market.
The people had no separators a while of years ago. They used to skim the milk and put the cream into a big vessel. Separators are used now. The cream is put into vessels and left there until it is ripe or sour. In the Summer the butter is made twice a week. In the Winter it is made once a week. Before the milk is separated in Winter it is put into a big pot of boiling water to warm it. A bucket at a time is put into the pot.
- Collector
- Mary Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs David Flynn
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Doon, Co. Tipperary
