School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 337
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- (continued from previous page)candles were made locally in the peoples own houses.
About seventy or eighty years ago people had no doors on the houses and they banked up the entrance with whins and left a space to go in and out. When night would come they would fill the space with whins left there for the occasion.
- Long ago the old houses were built with sods and were covered with scraith and rushes and the walls were mud walls. Most of the people had their houses thatched with rushes tied up in small long sheaves. The rushes were found growing in wet boggy places and the scraith was found in bogs. There were no houses slated except the Chapels. The slates had to be ordered because they were not sold in the small towns. In a lot(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Owen Mc Cabe
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
