School: Áth Treasna (C.) (roll number 16648)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthile
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- (continued from previous page)on their First Communion, and Confirmation days. Black clothes are worn at the death of a relative.
- There were no rooms in some of the old houses and the bed or "settle" was kept in the kitchen near the wall. When a big crowd stayed in the house they slept in a settle. This is somewhat like a bed. It is opened out from the hinges and laid flat on the ground, and three or four persons could sleep in it. In the morning when it was not in use it was folded up again like a box and you could sit on it. The fire was against the wall just like the open fires that are now, there were no ranges used at that time because the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Loinsig
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duarrigle, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr William Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duarrigle, Co. Cork
