School: Headfort
- Location:
- Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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- (continued from previous page)other occasions they were made of clay and wattles.
In old houses sometimes there were not any chimneys put on them and the fire was sometimes, but very rarely put on the middle of the floor and a hole in the roof served as an outlet for the smoke.
Instead of having windows of glass some people made straw mats and hung them over the windows.
In olden times earthen floors were very common, some floors were made of blue clay, others of flags and others of stones.
The walls of most houses were made of mud and large wooden rafters were placed across the top of the house to hold up the thatch. Thatched roofs are still very common in this district but the walls are no longer mud, but stone or cement.
The rafters which held up the roof were of black bog-oak.
- Collector
- Agatha Lawrence
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Enagh, Co. an Chabháin
