School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Buiríos Ó Luigheach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)time when it wasn't in use. The fire place was nearly always at the gable-walls. The front of the chimney was made with bricks and mortar.
The old floors were made of clay they were called earthen floors. Half doors are very common in my district. Wood was usually burned long ago.
Pupil; Mary Bourke, Cullohill, Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
Got from: Patrick Bourke, Cullohill, Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
65 yrs.
- The houses were tatched long ago and before that is was heather and sods. Some of them had beds in the kitchen and more of them had sleeping rooms. It was press beds were the name of the beds they had and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Devitt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Ó Muáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Matthew Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Drom Gill, Co. Thiobraid Árann
