School: Monreagh (roll number 7143)
- Location:
- Monreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: R. J. James
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1105, Page 79
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- They thatched the houses long ago with wheat straw sods and heather. They secured the thatch with sally rods. Some people slated them with the old Dooish Hill slates but they were very heavy.
The old houses had a bed in the corner of the kitchen and a curtain around it. There were also beds called settle beds they were used as beds at night and seats in the day time.
Some of the houses long ago had no chimneys others had but they were built of clay and sally rods.
Other people had no glass for the windows but they had iron bars sometimes put bags on them.
All the floors were clay and the houses had half doors these doors are common yet.
In those houses they burned peat sods and wood the kind of light they had was a candle in a bottle and it hung from the roof. The fires were always at the gable end.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Emily Wray
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William Gardiner
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Donegal
