School: Ceann Locha (roll number 11749)
- Location:
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Matilda Bolster
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 401
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- Houses built long ago were a lot different from houses built now.
Inside the roof was covered with bags, and the outside was thatched with rushes.
The old people slept in the hitches on a bed called a settle bed.
There were also beds with curtains round them.
There were half-doors in the houses to keep the children in, and to keep the hens out.
Turf was burned in all the fires.
- Collector
- Matilda Bolster
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
