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School: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)

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Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
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Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 339

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  1. Traditions of Local Industries that Have Disappeared (continued)

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    paper was unknown at the time a protection had to be used against falling cobwebs, spiders and particles of mould from bare scraw roofs. Hence beds had a cloth top-covering, and also side screening.
    (c) Settle-beds were made of deal-wood. They are still in use in country houses. Strongly made, they were used by day as a seat - forming a long, rectangular, box-like article six or seven feet long, about two feet high and about two feet wide with a panelled structure about two or three feet high perpendicular to the seat.
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