School: Cree
- Location:
- Cree, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Dennison
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 272
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: Cree
- XML Page 272
- 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 HousesThe houses in olden times were built of rough stones mixed with wet mud for cement. When the mud dried it stuck the stones together.The roofs were thatched with straw and scollops.All the old houses had a bed in the kitchen. It was called a "Settle Bed". It could be closed in and acted as a seat. The fireplace was nearly always in the gable wall. The front of the chimney was plastered with red clay wetted and made fine.The floors of the houses were made of red clay and sand. From constant walking the clay got as hard as concrete.Nearly all the houses had half doors to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Offaly
