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School: Stuacán (roll number 14051)

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Muingwore, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Mhiadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 264

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    Long ago the old people in this district lived in mud cabins. Those cabins were built with mud and roofed with bog, dale, scraws and wattles.
    There were chimneys in some of them and in others there was a Poll-á-tighe or a hole in the roof.
    The fires were built along the wall or in the middle of the floor and the smoke went out through the Poll-á-tighe.
    Insome of those cabins there were windows, those windows consisted of only one pane of glass about one foot long.
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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
    Mary Sweeney
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Muingwore, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs P. Sweeney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Muingwore, Co. Sligo