School: Duncormick
- Location:
- Duncormick, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: P. S. Ó hEachthigheirn
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- Churning. . . . . . 4 - 7 - '38.The height of our churn is about 4 feet and it is about 2 1/2 feet at the bottom. The barrel is 2 feet wide. The names of the parts are the handle, the stand and the barrel. We churn athome twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday and the butter is sold on the following Saturday. The churning takes about half an hour. The butter is finished when the glass on the cover of the churn is clear. The gas has to be let off now and again in order to kep the barrel from bursting
My mother and grand-mother churn in their turn athome. The butter is taken out of the churn and put in the keile with wooden butter - spades.Michael Kavanagh
Gibberpatrick,
Duncormick,
Co Wexford.- Collector
- Michael Kavanagh
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- Gibberpatrick, Co. Wexford