School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090F, Page 07_024
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- The houses of long ago were not as large or as roomy as the houses of the present day. There were only two rooms in the houses the kitchen, and a bedroom. Often the cattle were tied at the end of the kitchen. Sometimes a little outlet called a calleac were built out from the side of the house. Usually there was a bed in the calleac and the old people of the house slept in it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francie O' Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumneen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aille, Co. Mayo
