School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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- In our house we used a churn about 14 years ago. The churn was about 4 feet in height, 3 feet at the bottom and a foot at the top. In summer butter is made once a week and in winter the people that used have a lot of cows make it once a week. The woman of the house did the churning. If a stranger came in he would have to churn it for a while. It was said that the butter would never turn if he did not take the churn for a while. The churning was done by hand. It takes about a half an hour to churn the butter. Then it was taken out and put into water and taken out when it was cool and salted(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Mac Sithigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Richard Sheehy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bealkelly, Co. Kerry