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. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Informant
- Mr James Kelliher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Derrynahona, Co. Leitrim