School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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- (continued from previous page)fitting in the joints. A "lagger cutter" for making a trench in a churn to fit a bottom closely in it.
An "adze" for driving the hoops and a "brace" for holing the bottom joints in which to use a wooden peg to join it fast together. The churn was then fitted with a lid in which there was a hole made to allow the churndash to work up and down.
Those churns were known to last for forty years with but little repair. - In this parish long ago there was a priest named Fr. Ambrose.Soldiers were on his track so that he never knew when he might be captured.The soldiers came one night to a house in the townland of Cornamuchta South where lived a Protestant family, a man and his(continues on next page)