School: Killuran / Cill Úráin (roll number 14658)
- Location:
- Killuran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Inerney
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Killuran / Cill Úráin
- XML Page 03_009
- XML “Churning”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)In about a quarter of an hour, the churning is finished. Then the butter-milk is drawn and the butter is washed and salted. Then it is put in a box for market or for home use. Most people near a creamery send their milk there.
In olden times the people used a dash churn to make their churning. If it failed anyone to make the churning the people believed it was somebody who stole the butter. When the people long ago lived far away from the town or market, they stored it in a firkin until it was full. Then they took it on horse-back to market.- Collector
- Denis Mac Namara
- Gender
- Male