School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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- This the foundation of the thatching. Heath would not make a proper slicín without the Bun Duileáin under the thatch. There was not always a crane in the houses. Just a bar of iron across above and a chain hanging out of it. A stick some would have. A crook to go in the link here and there. Lofts are only forty or fifty years in full swing. When lofts usednt to be there were the 'tent beds'
Tent Beds were hat was called
Hag or Colleac in the County Mayo.