School: Ballyhaise (2)

Location:
Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 235

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  1. There was an old house about sixty years ago at Lisnashanna Cross.
    The only trade that remains of it now is the garden in which it stood. The old mud walls were there until a few years ago.
    The house was thatched. There was no chimney. The smoke got out through a hole in the roof. There was a wooden box round the hole. There was only one room. The floor was made of mud. Sometimes this little hut was flooded, when the residents had two little bedrooms made of boards and thatched, to which they used to go, until the flood went down.
    The old mud-wall house had a bed in the kitchen. It was called a settle bed and was in a corner.
    The fire was in the middle of the side wall on the hearth.
    There was one small window in the back wall. It was
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Frances Mulligan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisnashanna, Co. Cavan