School: Glenmaquin (roll number 9748)
- Location:
- Glenmaquin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eilís Bean Uí Leathain
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- (continued from previous page)used for light at night. The candles were called tallow candles and rush candles. In olden times they had no matches and they used flint stones for lighting the fire. I got most of this information from Frank Clarke of Glenmaquin.
- In olden times all the houses were thatched. The thatch grew on the farm.There always a bed in the kitchen beside the fire. It was called an out-shot.The fire place was always at the gable-wall, it was never at the corner or at the side wall. The front of the chimney was made of clay and wattles.In olden times there was no chimney in the houses but there was a hole in the roof. The fire was never in the centre of the floor.I never heard of any windows having no glass. Some floors were made of blue clay and some of(continues on next page)
