School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- (continued from previous page)tramp the floor, and make it level. In the morning the floor would be hard.
The doors were so small that when a grown-up person would be going in or out he would have to stoop.
There were no windows in those houses but there was a small hole in the roof to let out the smoke. - When the turf is cut it is thrown up on the bank. It is left there for a few days to harden. Then it is spread out. When it is dry it is made into reckles. Then it is put out on the road with bags or donkey-carts. After a few weeks it is brought home and stacked.
When lighting the fire in the bog(continues on next page)