School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 286
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- "There was lashings and leavings"
"As busy as a nailer."
"As clean as a new pin".
"As fit as a fiddle".
""Drowning the long hour".
"At it hammer and tongs".
"As cross as a weasel".
"As sharp as a needle".
"As straight as a whip".
"As black as soot".
"As yellow as a duck's foot".
"She would mind mice of a cross round."
"He would go to his neck in the lake for you
"He would go put his hand in the fire for you.
- About twenty years ago in almost every farmhouse was a settle. It was a seat by day and a bed by night. It was about six foot long and four foot wide when opened as a bed. By day it was a seat about six foot long and two foot wide. It was made of wood by a carpenter. Generally the young boys of the house slept in it. The tic was made of two big sacks sewed together and packed straw. The tic was emptied every year and emptied and filled. The seat was on hinges and closed in with a strap or sometimes with wire hinges. The bed clothes consisted of a linen sheets a home made blanket a quilt a druggest quilt and a patch
- Collector
- T. Mc Loughlin
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- T. Mc Loughlin
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
