Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. The Chapel Doon

   

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   Long House and Short House.

   The Chapel (Doon)
   A. The Long House
   B. The Short House
   C. The Short House.
   "I did not see you on the gallery today"
   "No. I was a bit late and I slipped into the Short House (or Long House).
   Altar runs South East.
   Some priest of Doon pronounced a dreadful curse against anybody who would smoke inside the chapel gate. I remember Father Kelly, (R.I.P.) roaring at a stranger (in 1915) "Remove that cigar out of your mouth". Twas only a cigarette!

   Kitchen (A) open to roof - not ceiled. All the other rooms (B.C.D.) "lofted" - access gained to room one C and D by means of moveable ladder. Two

   Plan ground floor --- end windows on second storey
   Usual 'three-windowed' form house. Doon and Cappawhite Parishes The 'four-windowed' house has an extra bedroom to right of the parlour and an extra room overhead.
   The front door of nearly all the country houses faces Galtee Mór, wh.lies due S of Cappawhite " All the doors face Galtee Mór"

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script