School: Empor (roll number 941)
- Location:
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
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- This story was told to me by a man named Bernard Mcguire aged 55 years a native of Empor.
There are two classes of churns, a dash churn and an end over end churn. A dash churn is one you work with a dash, an end over end churn is one you twist round with a handle.
The people do not churn as much now as they used long ago. The old people used to have tubs of butter, and they used to get a good price for it.
The butter used to be stolen by Charms, and there were people going and they used to have a thing(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sean Mc Guire
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bernard Mc Guire
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Emper, Co. Westmeath