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School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)

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Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Annie Ryan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 113

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  1. Churnmaking (continued)

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    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.
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  2. Priest-Hunters

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    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
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr James Kelliher
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    49
    Address
    Derrynahona, Co. Leitrim