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School: Empor (roll number 941)

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Emper, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 011

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  1. Churning

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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
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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
    Sean Mc Guire
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Bernard Mc Guire
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Emper, Co. Westmeath