Scoil: Glascorn (uimhir rolla 16615)

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1. The Old Houses

   

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   There are very few of the old houses to be seen nowadays They were always thatched and people used their own wheaten straw for thatching.
   The walls were made of yellow clay and that is why they are called "mud-wall cabins". They sometimes had an edging of stones round the doors and windows. In order to strengthen the walls they often mixed strong straw through the soft clay and when the clay dried and hardened it was like a brick. They used to get the timber to support the roof in the woods and in this district they often had to travel twenty or thirty

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Thomas Casey

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Brottonstown, Co. Westmeath

   Faisnéiseoir

   Joseph Reilly

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   65

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Balleagny, Co. Westmeath