School: Alt an Chuilinn
- Location:
- Altachullion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Martin
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- (continued from previous page)sides as far as they found arable land and the remainder of the mountain is still Common Land.
- The houses were then built of mud - and thatched. The windows were very small and a hole on the roof did the work of a chimney.
Hugh Mae Auley (2 years dead) Tullyna- mollíra , remembered the time when there were no wooden doors on any house in the two parishes- Corlough and Swanlinbar. The doors were then made of sally rods or wattle- they were called "curroges" (currógs). The door on the old Church at Ardragh, Corlough was made of wattles. Sometimes the rods and wattles were plastered with a kind of mud to keep out the wind and cold.
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James McGovern, Drumboory had 16 side-cars at his wedding 15 years ago.
Pat Maguire's Hawkswood - the last wedding with side-cars
- 17 years ago.(continues on next page)
