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School: Páirc an Chuilinn (Hollygrove) (roll number 15138)

Location:
Hollygrove, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádhraic Mac Gleannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0477

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    in order to save money often sewed and knitted by the firelight. The rosin was brought and melted and made into candles.
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  2. Old Houses

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    Old Houses
    The kind of houses built in olden times were clay houses. Those houses were made from clay and straw mixed with water and thatched with straw. People that straw thathed with it and those who had not any thatched with keath and rushes. As a rule, when a is about to build a house he would ask the advice of some man who was supposed to be in with the King or Queen of the
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
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