School: Beann Gulban (roll number 3301)
- Location:
- Kiltykere, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Giolla Mhártain
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have boarded ceilings and floors.
these on-story cottages have two chimneys one on either of the inner gables; two entrances one on the front and the other on the back of the Kitchen.
Two four paned windows are on each apartment.
The fire in the kitchen is on the hearth but most have grates with mantle boards in the rooms. The kitchen floor is of cement but in other houses the rooms have boarded floor and ceilings.
The fuel used is peat which burns brightly when placed on the hearth.
The turf is cut on the slopes of Benbulben mountain which is about four miles distance.
Mary brennan Age:13yrs
Derry,
Moneygold,
Co. Sligo.
None of the inhabitants speak Irish and only two women ; are over seventy years of age.
This district must have been dense forest once, as the townland show.
Derry, Gortaderry, Moneygold, Kilcat and Ciltycere adjoin.
- Collector
- Mary Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Derry, Co. Sligo
