School: Drumdigus (C.), Kilmurry McMahon (roll number 13479)
- Location:
- Drumdigus, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0600, Page 144
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- Old HousesA good many of the houses of the poorer class had mud walls. This mud was well "tempered" & when it dried it was as hard as any stone. There was usually only one apartment with the fire-place at one end & a bed or two at the other end. There was only one door at the south side & one small window stuck anywhere at all. The roof was thatched with rushes, which were cut perhaps in a neighbouring field, & tied down with straw ropes or súgán. One such house in this district was locally know as "Ink-bottle Lodge."Church-yardsThere are two church-yards in this parish - one in Kilmurry - the last resting place of most of the people of the parish - & the other, a kind of Fort in Tullycrine, called "Lios na Lesnbh" where unbaptised infants are buried. The church-yard is Kilmurry surrounds the Protestant Church; this is because in ancient times the Catholic Church stood on this site but was pulled down to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Stephens
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynalecka, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Calligan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Kilmurry McMahon, Co. Clare
