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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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - 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(continues on next page)
