School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 178
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- The usual kind of old house in this district is a very small thatched house about a yard down in the ground and a half door in the front and then they have a big door hanging beside the half door. They are very comfortable little houses but they are very stuffy. In front there is a little and a few hens around the door. In the kitchen there is a fire with two hobs on each side of it. Someone in generally sitting on one of the hobs. Then at one side there is an arm-chair, and at the other side there is a form. At the wall in front of the door there is a big settle bed that can be let down and act as a bed. In some houses there is but one room(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fintan Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
