School: Baile an Londraigh (B.) (roll number 14305)
- Location:
- Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Buachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0512, Page 045
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then than all the butter Inspectors and butter-makers with their up-to-date machinery can do at the present time. To my mind the Heads of our Dairying Industry, the backbone of the country, might learn a lesson from the past and be able to produce an article that will stand on any bench at any show in The World in heat or cold by adopting different methods of production.
When making the churn if you entered the house; in the kitchen it was generally made; you were expected to say "Bhail o Dhia ar an obair", put your hand on the handle and take a dreas, long or short. If you did not you were looked on with disfavour by the churners and put down as a bad person given to making pishogues.
