School: Crossmolina (B.)
- Location:
- Crossmolina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Corcaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 505
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- (continued from previous page)but some of the very old houses had one small window of about 6 ins square. When a pane of glass got broken long ago it was replaced by a wooden pane shaped in the same way. The floors of houses were paved with with stones and and those near the sea had flag floors.
Half doors were fairly common long ago. The only fuel used for fires was turf and sometimes people near woods used a little wood.
The candles used were long ago were made of fir. This wood dug up of the bog and let dry and afterwards it was spliced and these were the candles they used
