School: Baile Dubh (1)

Location:
Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Dhúnaighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0638, Page 59

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0638, Page 59

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  1. The old people described the older houses around here. The walls were made of mud sometimes straw was used with the mud.
    The chimney part was roughly built of stones and mud mortar.
    The timbering of the roof was of awfully crooked sticks for rafters and collar braces. Branches were placed across the rafters, these were sometimes nailed but more often tied on by súgán. The thatch was of rushes or straw.
    The house usually was of two parts, room and kitchen, lighted by two tiny windows scarcely a square foot each. The door was very low and there was always a half door.
    The bed in the room was made of timber fairly high off the ground, and with a timber canopy. The settle in the kitchen was a bed by night.
    They used everything for fire, including dried cow dung, bodrán.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kittie Barry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilcoran North, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Patrick Gallagher
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcoran North, Co. Cork