School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)
- Location:
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anton Ó Domhnaill
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- Long ago the houses were thatched. They were thatched with green rushes.
The beds were always in the side of the house beside the fire. When the side-wall was built, the wall was built a foot or two farther out than the rest of the wall where the bed was going to be put. This bed was called an out-shut.
The chimneys were always in the gable of the house, but they were never in the middle of the floor. The chimney inside the house was made of rods. The rods were plated like a creel.
The old people never used glass in the windows but instead of glass they used canvas.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick J. Gallen
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Joseph Gallen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal