School: An Clochar, Carraig Thuathail
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Celestine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0385, Page 331
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- In former times this district was very small.
All the houses were thatched.
The straw was bought from the farmers.
The old houses had a bed in the kitchen placed by the fire and it was called "The Taste Bed". The fire-place was always in gable-wall. It was never in the corner or side-wall. The front of the chimney was made of mortar and stones. The old people in the district never remember houses without chimneys or houses with the fire in the middle of the house on the floor.
There are not any accounts of houses without glass for the windows.
All the floors were made of mud.
In all the farmers' houses half doors are still in use.
Wood and coal was used for the fire.
Candles and dips were used(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anne O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullagreen, Co. Cork
