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School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)

Location:
Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 283

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    is a big table on the floor, there is a dresser lined with big dishes and plates in the bottom of the dresser there used to be a frying pan and saucer pans, hatchets, and hammers. There used to be a collar and a straddle up in the chimney There was two big hobs filled with turf and baking on the fire was a big pot.
    The house was thatched and there was a wooden chimey on one end, and there was a half-door also.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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