School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 529
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- XML Page 529
- XML “Old Houses”
- XML “Old Houses”
- XML “Old Houses”
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
- (continued from previous page)as doors and windows. Others had only wooden shutters which were opened in the day time and closed at night. Old floors were made of either clay, flag-stones or daub. Turf and timber were used as fuel. Colm balls are peculiar to County Leitrim they are made by hand from wet-slag and daub.
- I saw a woman named Mrs Floyd making colm balls out of the dry slack. She dipped a handful of slag into some water, and made it into a round ball. Then she put them on the fire along with turf.
- Collector
- Róisín Ní Costealbha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- In the majority of the houses there was a "pristin" one side of the fire-place, in which one bed fitted.
