School: Lugnaskeehan (roll number 6562)
- Location:
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Eibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 443
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Long ago the houses were not as good as the houses we have now. They were very small and some of them were built from mud. Those were called mud - wall cabins. There was no chimney on the mud-wall cabin but there was a hole in the roof and a creel on top of it. The fire was at the gable. They cut timber in the wood and put it on the roof of the house. They put soda on top of that and then they thatched it with heather or flax or rushes. The rushes grew in Lucawndubh and Curraghbawin. They had neither door nor window but at night they put up straw mats on the holes through which they entered. The bed was in a corner of the kitchen and it was called a “poach” the people burned bog- fur and turf. The bog fur showed light also. They made rush candles. They used the candles mostly when a woman was spinning
- Collector
- Annie Mc Ternan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Michael Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Buckhill Barr, Co. Leitrim
