School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)

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1. Old Houses (continued)

   

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   to be one small window in every house about a foot and a half long and eleven inches wide. Some people used to have four small panes of glass in each window and four irons outside the glass to protect themselves from robbers. Others who could not afford to buy glass used to have boards or shutters.
   Sometimes there used to be a drain at the end of the house as the people had no barns and they used to have the animals in the house. The cow used to be tied at the end of the house. The hens over them in a loft, the calf at the back door, the ass at the front and the pigs under the bed.
   The people had no lamps in olden times but a person used to hold a kindled block of bogdeal for the others to see to eat their meals. After that people invented the tin lamp and

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Delia Tunney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cashel, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Morley

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Curryaun, Co. Mayo