School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 524
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- (continued from previous page)otherwise than at the gable wall. In many of the old houses there were no fronts to the chimneys and the smoke had[?] full play to the house. Later on fronts wasmade of morter and stones.
Half-doors were very common in my district. They were very useful for keeping out the hens and for keeping in the small children that were learning to walk.
- The houses were mostly thatched from the straw of grain crops, and bull rushes got from the edge of the Shannon or lakes. The chimney in those days was usually in the same gable wall, in some cases the fire(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brenda Glancy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
