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School: Páirc an Éadain (Facefield)

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Facefield, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0100, Page 194

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    the old times the chimney was made of mortar, wattles and sticks. The old people remember the fire being in the middle of the floor, with a sort of a chimney to let out the smoke.
    There were old houses that had one pane of glass in the window and two bars of iron outside stuck in the wall. The old people kept a cow tied at the end of the house and a few hens in an old loft.
    The floors were made of clay long ago. The clay was dug out of the holes in the fields. Some people had flag floors. There was no cement floors in those days.
    The half doors were common in the district in olden times and some people kept them up to the present day.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nóra Ní Chléirigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gorteenmore, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Rochford
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gorteenmore, Co. Mayo