School: Aghadachor (Aghador)
- Location:
- Aghadachor, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire T. Ní Bhréasláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1078, Page 65
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- (continued from previous page)Clay floors were in the houses. There was a half-door on them also. Sticks were burned in the fire. There was no candles long ago and the used stripes of fir dipped in fat.
- The houses long ago were mostly all scallop thached. The roofs were thached in the same way as they are now, and long buors[?] and steeples for ropes. There were three bedrooms and a big room in some houses and onley one room in others. There was also a bed in the corner of the kitchen near the fire. The old people slept there.The fireplace was in the centre of the gable. The chimney was made with stones and mortar. There were two dors on every house, one in the front an one on the back and a half-door also on the front. Clay floors were in most houses.Fir and rough heads, that it, turd sods were burned in the fire. The people used strips of fir, and home-made candles for light. They made the candles out of fat and cord. They melted the fat, staped it round and drew the cord up through it.
- Collector
- Patrick Coyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kill, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Patrick Coyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Kill, Co. Donegal
