School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)are able to get back the butter by that means.
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- Collector
- Michael Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Julia Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- The butter is gathered together on the top of the buttermilk with a wooden trencher. It is lifted into a wooden butter tub with the trencher. The buttermilk is then squeezed out of it. Then it is rinsed and salted. After that the salt is beaten through the butter with two spades. It is then weighed out in pounds and prints. My churn is 24 1/4" long and 18 1/2" wide.
