School: Lios Dubh (B.)
- Location:
- Lisduff, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Mac Cuinn
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- (continued from previous page)at night you had to be careful or you'd be found floundering in the rampar.
Where building stones were scarce the houses was often a "mud wall" one. The walls were made of a kind of cement made of clay (dóib) well worked up with water and cut straw or heather (fraoch) mixed for causistency. This was poured into a frame just as modern concrete house are built. The "mud wall" house when nicely limewashed was supposed to be very warm and comfortable.- Collector
- Seosamh Ó Tuathalláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garryroe, Co. Mayo