School: Glendalough
- Location:
- Glendalough, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghabhann
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- In Olden times houses were built with mud walls, and were thatched with straw or heather. The floors were made of clay. Close to a wall of the kitchen there was a settle-bed it was used for a seat in the day time and for a bed at night.Some beds were made with a hood to the top. The farmers grew their own straw and got the heather off the hills to thatch their houses with.
- Collector
- Máire Fairsing
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Annamoe, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Statia Fortune
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Oibrí tí
- Address
- Annamoe, Co. Wicklow