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School: Gormanstown, Árd Fhíonáin (roll number 5615)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 507

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    out-offices in many cases. The dwelling houses are old with mud walls and thatched roofs while the outoffices are of stone and mortar with slate roofs. The explation of this seems to be that many years ago the landlord gave the tenants roofing materials free to encourage them to build new houses. The tenants took advantage of this offer and built new outoffices but left the dwelling houses as they were. In this district limestone is abundant and on almost every farm there was at that time a limestone quarry and a limekiln for burning lime. And so the new houses were built of stone and mortar and roofed with slates.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Location
    Gormanstown, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Mary Clutterbuck
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr P. Marsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gormanstown, Co. Tipperary