1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Naomh Muire, Carraig Thuathail

School: Naomh Muire, Carraig Thuathail (roll number 2050)

Location:
Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Criostóir Bheldon
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0384, Page 072

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0384, Page 072

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Naomh Muire, Carraig Thuathail
  2. XML Page 072
  3. XML “Old Houses”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Old Houses

    Share Share Post
    The kind of houses that they had long ago were thatched roofs and clay walls. These houses had thatched roofs. This thatch was made of wheaten straw. The old houses had a bed in the attic. The comon name for it known by the people around is pook. It was placed over the fireplace. The way they got up to it is they had a table with a chair upon it and they climb up on the table and chair. Sometimes they got up on it with a ladder.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    D. Twomey
    Address
    Ballintubbrid West, Co. Cork
    Informant
    T. Twomey
    Address
    Ballintubbrid West, Co. Cork