School: Killuran / Cill Úráin (roll number 14658)
- Location:
- Cill Iúráin, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Inerney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588C, Page 11_026
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- (continued from previous page)choosed and pitted. The big potatoes are put in one pit, and the small ones in another pit.
- In the olden times the houses the people had were made of mud. It was the women who made the first houses.
When timber houses were made after the mud houses, they had thatched roofs on them. The thatch they had was heather. The fire was in the middle of the floor and the smoke was going out a hole in the roof.
It was stone floors the people had then. They kept the poultry in the house(continues on next page) - Collector
- Francis Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Male
