School: Loughcrew (roll number 6488)
- Location:
- Loughcrew, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlis, Bean Uí Sheinchín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 055
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- (continued from previous page)no seperators and it took far more time and it was very hard work, now only the cream is churned.
People come to the house and we sell the butter and to the shopkeepers in Oldcastle.
In the time of St. Columbus he said that the time would come when all the people's milk would be churned in one churn.
Poor people come after churning to get the buttermilk to make bread. It is also given to the pigs to fatten them.
