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School: Ballyneal (Kilmurry)

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Ballyneill, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Manning Joseph
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 034

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    The cream would then be put into the churn and the staff put down into it and then the lid would be put on. Sometimes a spotlessly clean cloth would be wrapped round the edge of the churn to keep it from splashing.
    Then a person worked the staff up and down until the butter was made. The butter would then be taken out with a wooden skimmer and put into a butter - tub and washed several times until the water would be quite free from butter - milk. Then the butter would be salted and made into pound - rolls or two - pound rolls according as it would suit for the market.
    The butter was taken to the market in a butter basket. I do not know that they had
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Flynn
    Gender
    Female