School: Cloran (roll number 5282)

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1. A Hedge-School (continued)

   

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   that hedge school. After some years this old school disappeared with the rain and the weather.
   When the national schools came out, this school master went to live in a little hut beside the national school and died there,

   

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2. Old Houses

   

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   There is an old house in Clonabrack bog or Rath-rúin bog it is divided into two parts a kitchen and a bed room. The back wall and front wall were made of mud and the ceiling of the kitchen was thatched and the ceiling of the bed room was slated. The floor of the kitchen was made of clay with bricks mixed through it to keep it firm. The inside of the house was very dark there was a crosswall with a little window in it there was a hurdle over the fire place, the

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Cristíona Ní Uillic

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Crowinstown Great, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Mrs J. Gillick

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Crowinstown Great, Co. Westmeath