School: Coillte Clochair (C.) (roll number 2364)
- Location:
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sorcha Ní Mhuireagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 127
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- The houses in olden times were made a lot different from nowadays.
They were made from clay and there was no windows in them and the doors were made from straw. There were no chimneys only a small hole in roof, and a creel on the top and plastered in the front with mortar. There was a bed in the kitchen called [?].
They dug the clay and it was tramped and covered with rushes and left for a couple of weeks to harden. Then it was cut and the house was built. Rushes were used for tatch. A roof of flax would last for forty years. Rushcandles were used for light, they were made by peeling the green skin of the rushes and the white part was used for the wick.
There was a kind of dish called a ladle with tallow in it and the wick was put in that.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
