School: Kilgobnet

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   paved with some kind of round stones.
   Very often the bed was in the kitchen and the hens were kept on the rafters and the cows were very often tied inside in the kitchen. The beds in the kitchens were called settles and it was usually travellers or working men that slept on them. The beds that were in the rooms were called camp-beds. They were closed up with boards overhead and on one side.
   There were chimneys made of twigs or boards inside in the houses. The twigs were woven together and sloped up at each side ??, and came to a point at the top. Three or four boards were fixed on top to form the mouth of the chimney. The twigs were plastered with yellow mud. The people in my district do not remember the fire being in the middle of the floor.
   Two doors were the most that was in any house. The front door and the back door. There was usually only one room in the house. The doors were fastened from the outside by a bit of a strong chain put on the door with a staple.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Norah Cahill

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Shanacloon, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mrs James Cahill

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Shanacloon, Co. Kerry