School: Crossmolina (B.)
- Location:
- Crossmolina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Corcaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 506
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- The kind of houses which existed in former times were all thatched. They were roofed with timber, then bog scraws placed over the timber, and thatched with rushes or black sedge. The rushes and black sedge are got in the bog. In old houses there was usually a bed in the kitchen and it was placed in a corner convenient to the fire. It was called the kitchen bed. The fireplace was usually against the gable wall, and the front of the chimney was made of mortar and stones. In olden times people remember having the fire in the centre of the floor. They used to have a hole in the thatch and a creel or a bucket with a hole in it to draw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anthony Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossmolina, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Crossmolina, Co. Mayo
