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School: Dunree

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Maighréad Condún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 412

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    dried cow-dung. There was no particular kind of glass in the windows but they were very small.
    The floor was made of clay but any time there was a flood on the river the water came in and the house was always in slop, and so later on Bates got a cement floor in.
    My grandfather told me that in his day they used rush candles but he did not know where they were procured.
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    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
    Diney Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ashbourne, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Maureen Kearns
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Baltrasna, Co. Meath