Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0265
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- Long House and Short House.The Chapel (Doon)
A. The Long House
B. The Short House
C. The Short House.
"I did not see you on the gallery today"
"No. I was a bit late and I slipped into the Short House (or Long House).
Altar runs South East.
Some priest of Doon pronounced a dreadful curse against anybody who would smoke inside the chapel gate. I remember Father Kelly, (R.I.P.) roaring at a stranger (in 1915) "Remove that cigar out of your mouth". Twas only a cigarette! Kitchen (A) open to roof - not ceiled. All the other rooms (B.C.D.) "lofted" - access gained to room one C and D by means of moveable ladder. TwoPlan ground floor --- end windows on second storey
Usual 'three-windowed' form house. Doon and Cappawhite Parishes The 'four-windowed' house has an extra bedroom to right of the parlour and an extra room overhead.
The front door of nearly all the country houses faces Galtee Mór, wh.lies due S of Cappawhite " All the doors face Galtee Mór"