School: Ballyjamesduff Convent
- Location:
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. Mary Theresa
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- (continued from previous page)settle-bed. There were also bed know as press-beds that could be folded up like a press in the day time and could be made into a bed at night.
The floors were just made of clay, and one small pane of glass served as a window. The chimney was of wood and in real olden times the fires were in the middle of the floor with a hole in the roof to serve as a chimney.
The light they used was a rush candle. They way they made the candles was interesting. A rush was got and the green was peeled off it, all to a little strip on the side of the rush, then they dipped it in gravy and let it cod as it would not burn hot
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