School: Faill Ó Thuiadh (B.) Foilogohig, Baile Deasún
- Location:
- Foilogohig, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 329
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- There were two kinds of churns namely Plunge and Barrel. The former was made in the shape of a barrel and was worked up and down with a handle which protruded through the churn. There were certain customs connected with the churning. If a person entered a house when the churning was in progress no matter how great a hurry he may be in he would not be allowed leave the house until he did some churning.
The meaning of this was that people thought that if the person who visited the house had any ill-feeling to the people he could not harm the butter if he helped in the work. This was all caused through people being very superstitious, formerly.
When butter was salted it was first washed and then the salt was well mixed by means of timber plates and applied to the butter. previous to this each mixture was weighed so that a certain amount of salt was applied to a certain amount of butter.
- Collector
- Michael Jones
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Jeremiah Murphy
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Kishkeam Upper, Co. Cork
