School: Glenidan (roll number 12862)
- Location:
- Glenidan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoldhia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0722, Page 093
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- (continued from previous page)a box built horizontally into the wall behind the door.
- The beds, until recently were of the old four poster pattern with canopy and side curtains, the posts being turned and ornamented. A small table and wooden chest - every woman when she got married brought a wooden chest to her new home - completed the furniture. The kitchen has a dresser a settlebed, and in the older houses a cossett, a combination of box and table.In Dimer there is a shed which was built with the stones of an old chapel. When the men would roof it during the day the roof would be off it the following morning.
- Collector
- Frances Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Female
