School: Carnán (roll number 14031)

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   eighteenth and early nineteenth century from having a better home and thus came the description of the forty , shilling fee-holder. When the house and garden was not rated for more than thirty shillings first and forty shillings later . There were two kinds of cabins the bog cabin or mud cabin and the stone cabin. The stone cabin had gables the mud cabin had not.In the stone cabin the ridge pole on beam to support the rafters was carried from the top of one gable of the house to the other as
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   Rafters would now be erected called couples .thus :

   Here we see the rafters in couples resting on the wall of the house below and coupled above under the ridge hole the couples above were held together by hard wood pegs in

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mícheál Mac Searraigh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Athenry, Co. Galway

   Informant

   An Dochtúir Mac Searraigh

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Doctor

   Address

   Athenry, Co. Galway