School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- (continued from previous page)houses that were in the district formerly. They were built with yellow clay & big stones & had very small windows with one pane of glass which could not be opened or shut.
The roofs were thatched with rushes & straw & little switches which were called scollops.
The bed was in the kitchen.
An old would that lived at the side of Delaney's Mill used to have a fire in the middle of the floor. A hole in the roof let the smoke out.
- The old houses were made of clay with rushes in between to keep the walls together.
- Collector
- Patrick Noonan
- Gender
- Male
- Flat-roofed round houses made of clay were used long ago. A strong iron bar, from one side to another, kept the house together.
- Collector
- Ellie Browne
- Gender
- Female
