School: Ballylongford (C.) (roll number 11019)
- Location:
- Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Bheoláin
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- (continued from previous page)sometimes in the end of the kitchen. The front of the chimney was made of bricks and cement.
There were two doors in the house, and outside these, was a half door, as half doors were very common long ago. The floors were made of mud and when they would dry they would be as hard as cement or concrete. In the old houses there was a big open fire and over this was the crane and its crooks.
Long ago very few people had lamps but instead of then they used candles and splinters of bog-deal.
In nearly all the old houses there was a bed called a settle bed at the right-hand side of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Moran
- Gender
- Female
