School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)
- Location:
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Muiris Mac Gearailt
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- Long long ago people were not as knowledgable as they are at the present time. They did not know how to make roads, nor carts, nor houses.
This is how they built their houses. First they got long wattles and they left one end on the ground. Then they laid them against each other and were tied together with ropes which were made from hay. These wattles were got in an alt which is a very deep river, and the timber which grows on its banks is a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gerard Haran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bomahas, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Owen Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim