School: Mostrim (B.) (roll number 2083)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Richard Hyland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 405
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- Long ago the houses were not the same as they are now-a-days. They never slated the houses they always thatched them. They had the fire on the hearth and they would put the manure heap outside the front door the must have thought the nearer the muck the better the luck. The houses were built in a pit or a hole with a number of windows in the houses but very small ones. They would stuff the bed-room chimneys with a bag or two of straw the way the wind would not come down. They made mortar with cow dung and yellow clay mixed for patching purposes, After a few years they put tin or Galvainized over the thatch. Later years they started to slate and tile the roofs of houses and put grates and stoves in the kitchen. Now they have electric stoves for cooking and electric fires.
- Collector
- Victor Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
