School: An Gleantán, Lombardstown

Location:
Glantane, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0362, Page 239

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  1. In years gone by the old people built the walls of their houses with sods cut out of the dykes and placed over each other and packed with earth. When the walls were completed they were roofed mostly with common fir. When the house was roofed the people went to the mountains and pulled the heath and tied it into bundles and brought it home to thatch the houses.
    Some people such as the small farmers would thatch the house with straw over the heath after a year or two. But the poor man should depend on the heath all the time.
    When the houses were thatched and covered they were plastered inside and outside with clay.
    Those houses were called mud-wall cabins.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Callaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lackendarragh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr Edmond O' Callaghan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male