School: Seosamh Naomhtha (roll number 16640)
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Bráthair Naiti
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 75
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- (continued from previous page)These were made in Ballyshannon at one time.
- Long ago in Co Donegal they lived in wooden and mood hovels which they errected themselves. When they had chosen the site they started to dig out the foundation the required size. They heaped the stones on top of each other and plastered them with clay and left openings for the doors and windows. They cut fur rafters and laid them across each other they then cut sods in the bog and put them on top of the rafters. They used rushes dipped in the oil. They took the skin of the rushes and put them away to season. They then put oil on the rushes and used them as candles.
- Collector
- Jim Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Gallagher
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
