School: Ballyleague (roll number 5973)
- Location:
- Ballyleague, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Patrick O' Dowd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0259, Page 143
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- There are a number of old houses in this village. They are built of stone and mud and all of them are thatched. Some of them have three apartments, two rooms and a kitchen. A rude fireplace was constructed at the gable wall. A hole was bored in the roof and a bottomless bucket served as a chimney.
The walls of the houses were five feet high. The furniture of the rooms consisted of an oak bed and a table and in some houses there were chests which served as presses. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moher, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Corcoran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killattimoriarty, Co. Roscommon
