School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)

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1. Old Houses (continued)

   

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   up near the fire.
   There was another bed also called "a press bed" and it was a bed by night and a press by day. There was a hen-coob also (called) in the kitchen. Every hen in the place hatched there, but they are gone out of fashion now, as most people have some sort of out-houses.
   The fire was generally placed at the gable end. The chimneys were made of mortar and stones. There were also houses without chimneys but meals were cooked outside.
   Glass was not used but during the fine weather they did not want any protection. In the winter they put something against it.
   The floors were made of mud. Half doors were very common in the district long ago but there are not even two in this district now. The fire was kept burning by turf and peat and anything that would burn.
   When darkness came they used threads plaited together then dipped in fat. They were called dips. Rush

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Regan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs Ellen Magnier

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   87

   Address

   Ballyvisteen, Co. Cork