Scoil: Edmonton (uimhir rolla 8100)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Old Houses

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   12th October 1938
   All the houses in this district long ago were thatched. They were built with mud and had mud floors. They were sometimes covered with rushes and the walls were made of bog scraws but mud was generally used and rushes and straw was put through the mud to strengthen it.
   The thatch which they used was grown on land. My father told me that he saw a house covered with rushes at Scarden. The old houses always had a bed in the kitchen. It was sometimes in the corner or at back wall. It was called a Settle Bed. The fire was always in the centre of the house. Sometimes people had some fire in a bucket to heat up the room. There was a small beech tree cut down and put from one wall to the other without being pared or made into boards. The front of the chimney was built of clay and sally rods plaited together. They had no chimneys at the top.

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   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Máire Áine Ní Lorcháin

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Patrick Larkin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Clonlost, Co. Westmeath