1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Gort na Díogha

School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)

Location:
Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
Teachers:
Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 121

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 121

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Gort na Díogha
  2. XML Page 121
  3. XML “Houses”
  4. XML “Puddings”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Houses (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    and rushes and and straw and put cattle in to tamper it up and mix it. The would put a layer on every day like cement is done now. If there was a bulge in any layer they would chop it off with a spade.
    They would leave a hole in the wall for a window but the well to do people would have a pane of glass and a frame, and that left in in the hole. The stick chimney they had that was four long sticks from a beam up like a ladder with rungs across on them.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  2. Puddings

    Share Share Post
    (I think it is puddings) roll a gole of straw in doab. Use them soft. As quick as they were made they were carried to the man on top and he would weave them from one rung to another. They would start at bottom and keep working upwards. They would hang them
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Thomas Hegarty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    67
    Address
    Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway