School: Richmond (roll number 14400)
- Location:
- Richmond, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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- Long ago the houses were not at all like the houses that are in it now a days. They were built of stone and mortar inside and protected on the outside by sod and clay.
There was a bed in the kitchen in a place called an outshot. This place was about the length of a bed and going out a little further than the rest of the wall.
In some of these houses there was only the kitchen, no room and sometimes there were a few beds in the kitchen. The fire place was against the gable wall in(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sadie Caden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr John Caden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo