Scoil: An Clochar, Ceann Tuirc (uimhir rolla 10232)

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1. Old Houses

   

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   The houses occupied by our fore-fathers were made of clay. They had very low doors, sometimes only sacks were used for the purpose. The windows were only large holes left in the building. For a chimney they had an old box, plastered around with mud. Glass was not known at that time.
   Later on, the people improved a good deal in their manner of house building and made walls of stone and mortar with a straw covering nicely thatched. They had glass windows and good doors. The floors in the kitchens were sometimes paved and sleeping rooms had timber floors. There was a half door outside the front door which was kept closed all day in order to keep fowl and animals from entering the house, but the top portion permitted a good light and plenty of air and sun into the house. Until the beginning of the present century the

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   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Linehan

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Kanturk, Co. Cork

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr D. Daly

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Kanturk, Co. Cork