School: Clochar na Trocaire, Cinn Mhara
- Location:
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Siúr M. Bernadette
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- Churning is carried out in nearly all the Farmer's houses around my home district. Churning is very useful as creamery butter is very dare and the farmers do not like it as it is not salty.
We have a churn at home but we do not use it now. It is a machine churn. There are three kinds of churns, "machine", "dash", and "glass". The machine is a round one with an opening at the top covered with a lid. Inside there are wooden wings like the propeller of an aeroplane. On the outside there is a hand and when twisted it drives the wings and with the force of the wings beating against it, the milk gets sour and after sometime the butter forms on top.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patsy Noone
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcolgan, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs. K. Stanton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Kilcolgan, Co. Galway