School: Cor Dubh (roll number 13806)
- Location:
- Corduff, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0934, Page 095
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- The walls of old houses were built with mud and some stones. The roofs were made of oak sticks and thatch; the first thatch was bound with straw ropes.There were not many glass windows long ago because there was a tax on the glass. Then the windows were very small afraid of robbers and at night there were bags of straw put into the windows to break the blast.There was a settle bed in the kitchen, which was turned into a seat during the day. For light they had rush candles. They used strip the green covering off rushes, and dip them in gravy. Then they hung them to dry; when dry they were fit for use.
- Collector
- Frank Traynor
- Gender
- Male
