School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)

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1. Old Houses

   

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   Nearly all the houses in this district are now modern in design in and material, that is, built with stone and mortar or concrete and roofed with slates or tiles.
   The real old houses have almost all disappeared but there is one still standing and now used as a cattle - shed. It was owned by a man named James Noone. He died about twenty years ago at the age of about seventy - five years. His house was inhabited for generations by the Noone family and so must have been the oldest house in the district.
   It was built of stone and mortar of which materials there is abundance in the neighbourhood. It consisted of a bedroom and a long kitchen. About fifty years ago the kitchen went to ruin and it was roughly divided into a bedroom and kitchen. There was also a sleeping apartment called a "pouch" in the kitchen. It was just a widening out of part of the kitchen and had the appearance of a "lean to" shed on the outside.
   Its roof was a continuation of the roof of the

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Julia Hynes

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Highwood, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Mr M. Hynes

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   57

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Dromore, Co. Sligo