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School: Gráinseach Ailt an Chaistín (St. Johnston)

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Saint Johnstown, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán Ó Seanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1106, Page 63

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    Half doors are fairly common in the neighborhood yet in former days there was one on every house.
    The materials used for fires, were turf, coal, wood, "shoves," or "shows" from the scutch mills and rough heather sods. The people nowadays burn coal, shoves, turf, and wood. Long ago the people in this district burn turf, and shoves and heather sods. They dig turn in the western part of Donegal. The people at the present day have candles, oil lamps, gas lamps, electric light for the light nowadays.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Willie Magee
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Andrew Magee
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    57
    Address
    Saint Johnstown, Co. Donegal