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School: Mágh Rua (B.) (roll number 5880)

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Moroe, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
John Maher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0522, Page 115

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  1. Old Houses

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    In olden times the houses were built with mud, and the roofs were thatched made of sally rods, and the reeds which grew by the Shannon side. In the old houses the people kept their beds in the kitchen called settle-beds. In some kitchens, they kept the fowl up in the roosts, and they also kept young calves and sows with their brood. They kept the fireplace in the corner of the house and the floors were made of mud also. At that time the half-doors were to be seen in small country houses and they are still to be seen. The only light they had was rushes dipped in tallow which was kept in a crock in an old fashioned candle-stick which is still there. There were always chimneys in olden times because they knew nothing about electricity. (The kind of houses that were there in)
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    The kind of houses that were there in former times, the roofs of them were thatched and the walls were made of mud. They were thatched with reed, straw and rushes. The reed and the straw grew in the gardens and the rushes grew in the bogs and fields. There used to be a very big settlebed in every kitchen and six or seven people would sleep in them. There was an old man in Puckaun and he had a very big bed in his kitchen and all the newly married couples around the district used to sleep in it. It used to contain about fourteen people and they used to call it Mountrascal. The fireplace used to be in
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nial Sheehan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyvorheen, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    John Sheehan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Ballyvorheen, Co. Limerick