School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
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- (continued from previous page)a plough under the churn while you were churning you would have more butter on the churning. Another old belief was that if anyone went into your garden on the first of May and pulled a certain blue flower you will never have any butter that year. The churning takes about twenty minutes or half an hour.There is a little piece of glass in the lid of the churn and when no little specks of butter appear on the glass we know the churning is done. Then the butter is taken out into a vessel called a "keeler." Then water is put in on it and when all the butter-milk is taken out of the butter it is salted and got ready for the market. The buttermilk is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joe Keegan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lurrig, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Lurrig, Co. Westmeath