School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)

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1. Old Graveyards (continued)

   

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   cease until the stone was moved back to its proper place in the graveyard.
   Some of the local families still use certain graveyards though they sometimes are much further distant than the parish graveyard.

   

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2. Old Houses

   

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   In olden days the houses were mostly all thatched. The thatch was chiefly wheaten straw, heath also long grass called "Fionán" and rushes. All these were grown on the farms of the people. Most people in olden days had "settle beds" in the kitchen. By day they were folded up with the bed clothes enclosed, and were used to form seats. They had also what they called "press beds" which also folded up like a cupboard and the "taster" beds had hoods made of timber over them.

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   Topics

   1. earraí
      1. struchtúir de dhéantús an duine
         1. foirgnimh
            1. an teach cónaithe (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eileen Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs T. Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   c. 75

   Occupation

   Farmer's wife

   Address

   Cúil an Chollaigh, Co. Chorcaí