School: Cloonmorris (roll number 12496)
- Location:
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Michael J. Conboy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 065
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- (continued from previous page)up through it. They put it down through the firkin of butter and drew it up again and the space contained a sample of the butter down to the bottom of the firkin.
The man who made churns was called a cooper. We had but one cooper in this parish. His name was John Kilbride. He lived in Coonart about seventy years ago. He made churns for all the neighbouring people.
When you would be churning if a person came in he had to take a "brash" and not leave his house until the churning was finished, lest he would take the butter.
- Collector
- Teresa Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edercloon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Coote Geelan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Cloonageeher, Co. Longford
