School: Uragh (C.)
- Location:
- Uragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Mc Caffrey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0969, Page 035
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- (continued from previous page)cream is not separated from the milk.
Boiling water is poured in (during the Winter months) to raise the temperature of the milk. The dash is moved up and down when churning. When the butter is made it is seen in lumps on the dash. Then the churn is rocked from side to side to collect the butter on top. It is taken off with a strainer and put into a wooden dish called a losad. It is well washed in cold spring water, salted and made into prints or into rolls of about a pound each to sell in the shops. About 30 years ago the butter was packed into 'butts' and sold in the market in Enniskillen.
This is now discontinued as most of the milk is sent to the Creamery.
The butts and most of the churns in the district were made by a cooper named Luke Shiels who lived in the townland of Cornagran Swanlinbar, Co. Cavan. He was the last cooper in the district and the trade was carried on and his family for generations(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer's widow
- Address
- Gubrawully, Co. Cavan
