School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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- Long ago some of the houses were thatched and some slated. The slates were got in the sides of the hills in Portnoo and Ardara. There was a bed in the kitchen in a corner called the out-shot beside the fire. The oldest person in the house used to sleep in it. The fire used to be in the middle of the floor with a hole in the middle of the roof to let out the smoke. Before glass was made they used a sheep's skin on the windows. The floors were made of clay tramped tightly into the ground. The fires were made of fir. Their candles were made of rushes steeped in butter.
- Collector
- Bridget Mullins
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Boyce
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal