School: Coillte Clochair (C.) (roll number 2364)
- Location:
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sorcha Ní Mhuireagáin
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- (continued from previous page)finished it is given a rolling motion in order to gather the butter.
In winter warm water is poured in and in summer cold water is poured in. When the churning is finished we get a butter dish, butter strainer and butter spade and wash them well with salt and boilding water. Then the butter is lifted out with the strainer and put in the butter dish and then it is mixed with salt.
If a person went into the house where the churning is being carried on and bring out a coal there would be no butter on that milk.
If the butter is lost it is got back by stirring the milk with a glove of a dead person. On a May morning if you would put copper and silver into the vessel in which you would be milking(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs F Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim