School: Poll Réamoinn (Cailíní)

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1. Puzzles (continued)

   

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   20. Two ducks before a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle.
   Three ducks.

   

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2. Old Houses

   

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   The houses long ago were made from "Doab". Doab was yellow sand which was got in slushy drains. This was mixed up with broken straw and with the mixture the house was made. While they were making it they put sods of turf and layers of hay over every layer of doab. The roof was made of rough timber with brambles of trees across the rafters. Over these were placed scraws and then covered with heath. It was then thatched with straw or rushes. The floors were of clay and the windows were very small. The chimneys were made of wood and in some of these houses there were no chimneys except a little fire burning on a large flag which was left in the middle of the floor. There was a hole in the roof through which some of the smoke went and all the rest went out the door. Some of the houses had breast chimneys and in other the chimney started above the fire and this is the drawing fire chimney. The fire-place was always in the centre wall of the house. The house was divided into three parts, the kitchen in the middle and a room each side. There were two

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Connelly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Pollremon, Co. Galway