School: Athboy (C.)
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bríghid, Bean Uí Mhacháin
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- There were a lot of old mud wall cabins that poor people had to live in long ago.
These houses were all tatached and some were covered or roofed with flags.
When oats and wheat were cut they houses were tatched with the straw.
There was a bed in the kitchen in the old houses and in some houses there is a bed in the kitchen yet. The name of this bed is a settle bed.
In most houses the fireplace is against the gable end and in some houses the fireplace is in the corner. The front of the chimney was made of clay(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Maye
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr Maye
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Athboy, Co. Meath
