School: Lios Dubh (B.)

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1. Old Houses (continued)

   

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   at least thatching a dwelling house was a regular art and was only done by specialists in the art. Round on the side walls and projecting about four inches outward was a line of flagstones, This made the part to be thatched all the less and there was less danger to the roof from strong gables.
   The kitchen was generally a very large room. In the lower end of it were kept the cattle. There was a regular drain for their droppings and over them was often a loft for the domestic fowls. At a later stage when people built out offices for the cattle and fowls this part of the kitchen was partioned off and made into "the room below". The farmeyard manure pit (Rampar) which was separated from the front of the house by an narrow flagged street about six feet wide. Going out of a house

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seosamh Ó Tuathalláin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Garryroe, Co. Mayo