School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)

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1. Old Houses

   

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   The houses that were out long ago were not like the ones now. The old ones were built of stone and mortar. The roofs were thatched with straw they had no slates.
   They were very small houses there was only one room and the kitchen. The was a bed in kitchen left along by the side wall. It was called a press bed or a settle bed.
   The fire was in the gable. The front of the fire place was made of rods and clay. The windows were very small and small panes of glass. The floor was made of mortar. They had half doors in them. They were made for keeping out the hens. They made the fires out of sticks and furze and when the dry weather would come the old men would go out and gather heaps of cowdungs. The had no lamps only rushes. They peeled them

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eugene Colleran

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Owen Colleran

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   48

   Address

   Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon