School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 306
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- (continued from previous page)the kitchen. In some places there was a cross wall erected in the middle of the house. There was auger holes put through the frame and wattles or rods wrought in and out through that. It was well plastered then with clabar. There use to be low hipped gables in the old houses. The floor was paved with stones and coated with clay.
- The houses long ago were made of clay. The walls were made of clay, and the roofs of thatch. The floors were made of clay. The fire place was boarded. There used to be a half door in the kitchen to keep out the hens. The hens used to rest in the houses at night, and the pigs used to stay in it too. The cows used to be tied in the kitchen. The people used to make the tea in a porringer.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Mc Guire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr C. Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
