School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 252
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- These old houses were generally thatched. The thatch was scorched wheaten straw or rushes. In some of the old houses there used to be a bed in the corner. These beds were called settle-beds or banks or shake-downs.The fire-place used to be in the gable wall in most of the houses. In former times the front of the chimney used always be made of clay and wattles.My father knew a house which had no window but a door and a chimney. The old floors were made of mud. Half-doors are in almost every house in the district. They used have no candle in former times but bog-deal splinters. The fire used to to be bog deal and turf and sometimes wood.
- Collector
- John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullagubbeen, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tullagubbeen, Co. Kerry
