School: Mount Stewart, Ceapach Chuinn
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- Mountstuart, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Chonaire
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- The houses of the olden times were thatched with heather and rushes and straw. The heather was got on the mountainy land and the people grew the rushes on their little farm.
There was a bed in the kitchen because there was only a kitchen and a room in some houses and in others there was only the kitchen. In some houses at the present day there is a bed in the kitchen . There was only one little window in every house and one door(continues on next page)