School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)
- Location:
- Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0242, Page 256
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- In olden times the houses were built of sods. They were roofed with log timber and thatch or heath. The thatch was got from hay or rushes. There used to be a bed in the kitchen in oldern times and in some of the houses of the present day there is still a bed to be seen. It was placed near the fire. There was built a spuane wall and sticks left across it and straur shook on it. It was called the 'hag'. The fireplace was not always in the galle it was sometimes in the side-wall. There used to be no chimney top on the houses in oldern times. There used be a hole for a window but there used be no glass in it. They used put a bundle of straw in the window at night time. In oldern times the horses, calves, pigs, hens and other domestic animals were left in the house
- Collector
- Norah Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloondart, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloondart, Co. Roscommon
