School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 169
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tallanstown
- XML Page 169
- 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
- Old Houses.
The houses long ago were mostly thatched.
There were very few of them slated.
In some of the houses long ago the kitchen was slated and the remaining parts of the house were thatched. Some houses were built in bogs and they were called bog cabins.
Some of the houses long ago were thatched with rushes.
The thatch was got from the straw the people had and the slates were got in the slate quarry.
The fire places were always along the gable wall. There is no account of the fire place being in the corner.
There used to be iron bars on the windows to keep out robbers.
Turf coal and wood were used for fire long ago and they are still used. The turf was got in the bogs.
Katie Crawley,
Kilcroney,
Duffy's Cross.
Got from Mat Crawley
Kilcroney
Duffy's Cross.
- Collector
- Katie Crawley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcroney, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mat Crawley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcroney, Co. Louth
