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School: Carrickallen

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Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
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A. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 226

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    We have a churn at home.
    This churn is twentyseven inches high and it is seventeen inches wide where the crib joins the body of the churn and it is eighteen inches wide at top of the crib and twenty inches wide at the bottom of the churn.
    This churn is round in shape.
    It is about thirty years of age and it was made by a man named Sheridan.
    This man lived about Cootehill.
    The churn is made of oak staves bound together by iron hoops.
    The parts of a churn are the body, the crib, the lid, and the dash.
    There is a mark at the bottom of the crib inside the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Olwill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumcalpin, Co. Cavan