School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090F, Page 17_024
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- The houses long ago were built under hills because in eighteen thirty-nine a big storm came and swept the houses away and the people built their houses under the hills for fear of a storm again. Some of the houses were thatched with straw but when straw got scarce they thatched them with sedge or heather. Some of the houses contained two rooms a kitchen and a bedroom. There was a little room in these houses and it was called the cailleach. Usually the old people slept in the cailleach or in a bed in the kitchen beside the fire. The chimneys of these houses were very wide(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Geraty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Balloor West, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mike Parsons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Balloor West, Co. Mayo
