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School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)

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Adare, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
An tSr. Mechtildes
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0505, Page 222

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    and a kitchen and the walls two to three feet thick. They were built of chopped up hay mixed with mud which helped to keep the stones together.
    Each apartment had one small window measuring about one foot square on the outside and sloping in measuring about three feet inside. Sometimes they had glass and more times not. The door frame and door were very roughly made and were sawn across the centre so as the top part could be open leaving the lower part shut.
    The fire was generally in the corner of the kitchen. An open heath with the fire on the floor. It contained
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Scanlon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Adare, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    James Collins
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80