School: Kilbonane, Lios an Phúca (Beaufort) (roll number 5482)
- Location:
- Kilbonane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Clúmháin
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- (continued from previous page)trees and cut them and burned them. A splinter of bog deal, which had been steeped in fat for a few days was stuck in a turnip and was used as a light. After digging the potatoes the old people kept the stalks and left them dry. Then they were ready to be used as firing. Long ago there were no tables in houses. They stretched a cloth on the floor and ate their meals off it.
- Long ago there were many houses in this district. The houses were built of mud and sods. The sods were got in bogs. The mud was also got in bogs. The sods and mud were dug with spades and slawns. The walls were made with small stones and mud mixed with water. The rood was made of sods and thatch. There(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tadg Ó Conchubhar
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolroe, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Charles Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Coolroe, Co. Kerry