School: Kinsealy
- Location:
- Kinsaley, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: C. Mac Domhnaill
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Matthew Rielly of the Baskin Lane Cloughan told me this story, about four years ago. Now my chance has come to tell it to you, and I hope you will enjoy it.
Near our old house there is a house made of straw and clay. The walls are about four foot thick. The clay and straw were put up with a fork and thamped down with a mallet. They build up part of a wall and let it dry. Then the come in another few days and build up the rest of the wall .
When the house was finished they nailed laths on the mud walls. It was roofed with flaggers first and in time to come it was roofed straw. It stands about a quarter of a mile from Kinsealy and it is about three centuries old. A mud house is very comfortable and is also very healthy. The windows are small because they are afraid that the wall might fall.Thomas Saunders,
Baskin Lane,
Cloughran,
Co. Dublin.
- Collector
- Thomas Saunders
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baskin Lane, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Matthew Rielly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baskin Lane, Co. Dublin
