School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)

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1. Old Houses (continued)

   

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   at the gable end of the wall, but now the kitchen is always in the middle of the house and the fire is in the kitchen. Long ago the chimney was made of mud and clay and wattles and sometimes stones and morter. In former times there were no chimneys in the houses only pipes going up through the roof of the house, and the fire was generally in the middle of the house and at night the family used sit round the fire.

   

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2. Old Houses

   

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   In olden times most of the houses were thatched and some of them had sheet iron over the thatch so as to preserve it. But of late years these old houses are being knocked down and better ones built instead having slate roofs. When the houses were small chairbeds or pressbeds were

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Madge Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs Murphy

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coolacullig, Co. Cork