School: Boulavogue

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Boleyvogue, Co. Wexford
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Énrí Tréinfhear
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    Old Houses
    Very few of the houses long ago were slated, they were all thatched. The thatch was oaten straw and wheaten straw. The old floors were made of clay and flagstones. Bushes and Bochauns were burned in the fires.
    Little lamps on the hob with no glass on them were used for light and candles which they made themselves.
    This was told me by my father
    Patrick Parle (44 yrs)
    The Harrow,
    Ferns, Co Wexford.
    Michael Parle [ same address ]
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Candles were used for light, the candles were made of rushes.
    [My mother Mrs Leacy (- 40 yrs - ) told me this]
    Brigid Lacy
    Monamolin, Gorey, Co Wexford.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. The houses in olden times were built with mud walls mixed with straw and roofed with timber & lined wth sods usually called scraws (or rushes) & then thatched with straw or rushes.
    Some chimneys were made with boards. Some of the houses had holes for windows called peep-holes.
    The fire was flat on the hearth and paved all around with small stones.
    The light used at night was a twisted rush steeped in tallow or grease.
    My father Mr Kehoe (50 yrs) told me this.
    Eileen Kehoe
    Clone, Monamolin, Gorey, Co Wexford.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Kehoe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clone East, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr Kehoe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Clone East, Co. Wexford