School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 16477)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Nóirín Ní Uiginn
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- XML “Old Houses - Sheebeen”
- XML “Old Houses - Sweat House”
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- Informant
- Mrs L. English
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Clooncah, Co. Ros Comáin
- There was a sweat house in Tullaghan over a hundred years ago. It was in a field called "Daly's Field" now owned by Tom Somers. These sweat houses were for getting people out of pleurisy and other sickness. The Daly's owned the one in Tullaghan. They used to put down a big turf fire in the middle of the floor. Then they put down a big pot of water to boil and then they'd fill it with hay. Then they used to bring in the person(continues on next page)