School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)
- Location:
- Baile na Bearna, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: C. E. Kidd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)201and is then washed three times in the churn and then it is put into a butterworker. Salt is put into it then and it is worked through the butter till it is salty enough. The butter is made into pound rolls then.
It is sad that if a pig is killed and put in with the butter in the dairy, it will take the yield out of the butter. - Extracts from the composition written by Fred Swaine, Ballycarney.Our churn is about sixty years of age.
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When the milk is churned Aunt Mary puts the butter into a wooden affair called a "ceeler" (pronounced Keeler)
The bread is wet with the buttermilk.
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The details of this composition are indentical with those written by his brother D. Swaine- Collector
- Fred Swaine
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Uí Chearnaigh, Co. Loch Garman