School: An Baile Mór (roll number 11193)
- Location:
- Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: D. E. Tate
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 274
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- (continued from previous page)There was a bed in the kitchen. It was a bed made of wood. There was one door in the house. In the time of the war townspeople had to mix tar and sand because they could not get their turf saved.
Ruth Moffitt
- There were very nice little houses long ago. There were one storey houses with thatch roofs, with kitchen and two or three bedrooms. The well off people had two storey houses, with a
kitchen and three or four bed rooms with nice windows; they had a sitting room also. Some houses had no rooms, only a kitchen and a wooden bed with a rope bottom in it. Instead of
glad that had a sheep skin(continues on next page) - Collector
- Pearl Stewart
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Stewart
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
