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School: Ballyheedy, Ballinhassig (roll number 15550)

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Ballyheedy, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Haonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 223

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    The majority of all farmers and labourers houses in this district in olden times were built of mud and had tatched roofs. The walls were about two feet thick with a layers of rushes every eighteen inches apart. The roof was made of light larch trees and then thatched with rushes and in some cases with wheaten straw. The inside was a large space. A partition of some kind was erected in the middle of the house to form a bedroom. The fireplace was at the gable end and the chimney was made of stone and mortar. In all the old houses there were two very small windows.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joan Kiely
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr C. Kiely
    Gender
    Male