School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)
- Location:
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Muiris Mac Gearailt
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- Sweat Houses
Long long ago before doctor, nurses, medicine or hospitals were heard of in this parish, sick people who caught a chill or a cold were put into a wee house called a sweat house and left there for about three hours.
The sweat house was a small house circular in shape about six feet in diameter and and seven feet high. The door was just a hole in the side and a person had to creep in on their hands and face. The house itself was made of clay and roofed with "scraws".
Before the patient went in a big turf fire was lighting(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nellie Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Ronan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim