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School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)

Location:
Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0193

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    In former times people lived in mud houses which were thatched with sedge which was cut out of a river and saved in some field. Some of those houses were thatched with rushes and lined with bog sods to the inside. There was a hole in the roof to let out the smoke and it was known as the chimney. There was a small bedroom in some of those houses. There was no latch or lock in former times, the usual protection to keep the door from coming in with the wind was a piece of deer's horn.
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