School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)

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   whitewashed inside and outside and in many cases the outsides of the chimneys were whitewashed.
   There was a settle bed in most kitchens. It lay along the back-wall and as near the fireside as was found convenient or desirable. It was generally the children who slept in it. Where families were large they often had a shake-down on the opposite side of the floor. In the houses of well-to-do farmers press-beds were sometimes, though rarely, seen, and they were usually in the parlour, if there was a parlour.
   The floors were made of "striven". Sometimes the kitchen floor was flagged.
   Almost every house had a half-door. At present there are few half-doors.
   Turf was the fuel in common use. It was supplemented in winter by the clippings of hedges..
   Seventy or eighty years ago resin-candles and rush candles were the principal sources of light at

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sean Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cardistown, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Mrs Callan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cardistown, Co. Louth