School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)
- Location:
- Aughrim, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceocháin
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- (continued from previous page)was scattered over the floor also.People had their own ways of having light. Bog-deal splinters were used. The bog-deal was got in bogholes. The candles were bought in the shop, and they were called "dips". Those candles were very big ones. A pound of candles cost eightpence, and sixteen of them were in a pound.(Annie Carroll,Fairfield)
- In Ireland long ago, houses were unknown to people. They lived in caves and dug-outs. Later they built big banks of sods and covered them with long poles. Later on they found out the art of building. They got four pieces of timber and a fork on the end of each and put one standing at each corner. The uprights used to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Galway