School: Castlecuffe, Mountmellick (roll number 8749)
- Location:
- Castlecuffe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: J. Devereux
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- (continued from previous page)butter away with them. It generally takes half an hour to do the churning. The churning is done by hand. It is being turned by means of a handle while the churning is been done. There is a little bit of glass on the lid of the churn, and when little white pips come on that, the butter is made. In the middle of the churning hot water is poured in, to make it easier to churn.It is said that there was a woman churning one day and a man came in to light his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolagh, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Daly
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolagh, Co. Laois