School: Banahoe
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 092
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- (continued from previous page)or seat during the day.(I have been visiting a house for three years and not until today did I discover that the seat I saw in the kitchen was a bed). The different kinds of beds used should, I am convinced, explain why the out-shot at the back of the older country houses is found in the some districts and not in others. Dr.Campbell, Professor of Folklore in Upsola University in Sweden, with whom I spent a week in July 1935 when he came to Glencolumbkille, Co. Donegal, to study folklore, was very interested in the out-shot feature. I have heard the theories he puts forward to explain this evolution in building, but he never mentioned that the type of bed used had anything to do with the matter.
- In Cavan the hearth is very large, extending the full width of the kitchen as a rule except for the width of a door to the upper room. The reason for the great width is probably the fact that Co. Cavan being a great pig rearing one,(continues on next page)
