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   "thatcher" was to be found. He was a craftsman at his work, and spent the whole year going from farm-house to farm-house thatching for hire.

   Mud-cabins were often seen formerly, especially near bogs. The sidewall of such cabins were usually about six feet high, and made of mud or dried peat. A sloping roof of rough timber, "scrans" and rushes completed the building. These were the houses of the very poor.

   In many of the old houses there was a recess in the kitchen which contained a bed. This recess was something like the modern "bay-window." When planning the house, portion of the side-wall, usually about seven feet, was moved out about a yard and a half so that the side wall looked like this: _n_. The roof of thatch projected out beyond this recess. An old house in Leitrim village about forty years ago had two such recesses one in the kitchen, and one in the adjoining room. There was not any window in this recess. Some of the very old cabins had the fireplace in the corner of the kitchen, instead of in the side-wall or gable. More

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Leitrim, Co. Leitrim