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School: An Clochar, Uachtar Árd (roll number 13439)

Location:
Oughterard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr M.S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 381

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    sty was built in the corner and there was a bed on top of it where the children slept.
    The fire place was in the gable and holes that were for chimneys and after that they had basket chimneys. That was they made a basket with scollaps and fired it in the hole in the roof. Then they made stone chimneys and now it is concrete chimneys that are in the houses.
    There used only be one door and it was so small that the people had
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Darcy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Oughterard, Co. Galway