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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

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Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 448

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    Thatched houses that were long ago. The people got the thatch from oat that grew and was threshed.
    There was a bed placed in the kitchen and this was called a "hag" or a "settlebed". The reason this bed being in the kitchen was some of the houses had only one room and more of them none.
    There was an odd house where the fire was in the floor and a hole in the roof for the smoke to go out. But in most
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Kate Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Kilgarriff
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo