School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 217
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- (continued from previous page)kicked out of the bottom of it. Then the straw was fit for thatch.
There was no room in the most of the old houses. The bed consisted usually of bags of hay or straw put up on sods of turf or sticks and was placed near the fire.
Any person who had a lot of money had a timber bed. The fireplace was mostly always in the gable of the house. The smoke did not always go out through the top of the house. In some houses it went out a hole which was made through the thatch on the "hip" gable. There was a house in my locality some years ago which was owned by Patrick Mulcahy and the late Thomas Sheehy.
The smoke went out of this house in the latter way. In its last year it was the only house of its kind in the locality. Often when its occupants were out travellers who were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynageragh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Maurice Whelan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Ballynageragh, Co. Kerry
