School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0673, Page 090
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- There was a house beside our house and a sod roof on it and the fire was in the corner and a hole in the roof, the ruins of it are to be seen yet.
- Collector
- Mary Campbell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hitchestown, Co. Louth
- The fire places were mostly at the gable wall but my Grand Aunt told me that she remembers a few old houses in the district that had a fire place in the middle of the floor, and there was a hole in the floor, and there was a hole in the roof of the smoke to go out.(continues on next page)
