School: Edraguil (roll number 11225)
- Location:
- Edergole, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Nic Philip
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0944, Page 361
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- Houses in olden times were built with mud and thatched with straw, wheat-straw or rushes. The thatch was fastened in place by sally rods. Houses were thatched every two years. Some houses were roofed with flag-stones there were got in the quarry they were held together with cement and sand.
Three-roomed house with only one floor were most common in this district. The kitchen was in the centre and a bed room at each side. Windows were very small; often only one pane of glass in each window.
The older houses had a bed in the kitchen. It was called a settle it served as a seat by(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Greenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Monaghan
