School: Baile Dubh, (C.) (roll number 15541)

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1. Buying and Selling (continued)

   

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   always visited these town lands round Ballyduff, bringing rags , feathers and gathering bottles and giving in return , needles , thread , laces , studs , brooches , and rings.
   The farmers wives never paid for the goods they got , but just bartered things instead of them , they got dups and saucers and wares of all kinds.

   

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2. Old Houses

   

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   In former times low cabins were used and generally only one room in them. The walls were made of clay and cut up straw, mixed together with water. This mud was used to build the walls which were only about five feet high. The doors were very, and one had always to bend one's head to get inside. The roof was made of Gabhlóg

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)
            2. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   John Keeffe

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   74

   Address

   Toornageeha, Co. Waterford