School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
- Location:
- Clontuskert, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029C, Page 09_019
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cluain Tuaiscirt
- XML Page 09_019
- XML “Old Houses”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)used to pen and shut and this was very handy because it could be opened in the night and shut in the day. The fireplace was at the gable-end wall and it was called the hearth. There were some houses which had no chimney and the fireplace was not at a wall but, the fire could be in the middle of the floor or any place about it. and there was a hole in the roof of the house which the smoke went out through.The floors in these houses consisted of clay and mortar. The clay was put down int he bottom and the mortar was put down in patches and they were very rough and unlevel because of the patches.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Murray
- Gender
- Male
