School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 063
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- (continued from previous page)made entirely of wood and has a step for the foot.
- Crocks and other articles for the kitchen were made at a place called Knockcrockery and sold on the streets of a market day. Clay pipes were made there in olden times and hawked through the country.
- Churns complete with dash and dabbler were made locally by the cooper of good oak. Also butter vessels, such as tubs and firkins and what was called a cool.
Those tubs were filled with the butter and in the harvest or ealy winter brought to the nearest market town and sold to the butter buyer. A farmer's standing was often reckoned by the number of tubs of butter he had to sell.
Ladders, long ones and short ones(continues on next page)
