School: Achadh na Sealbhaighe (roll number 15344)
- Location:
- Aghnashalvy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Maguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0952, Page 054
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- (continued from previous page)or Firkins which were capable of holding from fifty to seventy pounds of butter when full. These coopers also made a smaller class of butter-tub and this was called a "Cool" and held about from thirty to forty pounds of butter,
When the Creameries started about thirty-five or forty years ago the call on the cooper became very small as the demand for Cools and butter-tubs immediately ceased.There are however a few local coopers still and their work consists chiefly in the making of plunge or upright churns, milk tubs, common tubs and a small-sized barrel, sometimes called a water-stand and which is used locally for holding water and is sometimes also fitted with strong hooks at the sides and these enable the stand when full to be carried(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryartry, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Thomas Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Derryartry, Co. Monaghan
