Scoil: An Cnoc, Clanna Caoilte
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- Na Cnoic, Co. Chorcaí
- Múinteoir: Máire Ní Liatháin
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)at home from wool and flax. Even the very poorest - the labourers - kept sheep and grew about a quarter of flax each year.
----------------------------------------------------- - Butter-making was one of the principal industries. Two or more farmers joined in the filling "of firkins" - a wooden vessel which was capable of holding about seventy pounds of butter. They both churned on the same day. & their combined products were salted, weighed, and packed. When they had sufficient to form a horse-load, it was taken by road to Cork & sold. When properly corned - the butter was in perfect condition after as long as six months. The buyers tested the butter by means of an augur - forced right through & jerked upwards. It was then tasted & graded. There were as many as six grades of butter in the Cork market & the price of the first was almost double that of the most inferior.
There were other classes of buyers - often farmers - who bought butter - for the purpose of increasing the weight & re-selling. This was done by what was called "slashing" - that is heating the butter & forcing warm(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)- Bailitheoir
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