School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)
- Location:
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Maonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 271
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- (continued from previous page)It has two appartments, the kitchen is divided from the room by a few boards. There is an old fashioned bed of wood in the room. There are two holes in the wall for rush-candles, and the fire is down in a hole.
- Long ago the houses were not built like now. The walls were made of mud. The floors were earthen floors. They had a fire on the hearth. The houses were low and thatched. They used ot get rafters in the nearest wood. They used to have a wooden chimney.
They had wooden beds with a cover over head. On this bed there were four wooden bed steads. This cover was made of cotton, with flowers mixed through it. It stretched from one stead to the other. These houses were all in the one; they had no rooms. They had only one window with one pane of glass in it. This window was in the fronth of the house. - Collector
- Elizabeth Molloy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappanrush, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cappanrush, Co. Westmeath
