School: Lorg an Iarla (roll number 13590)
- Location:
- Lurganearly, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Choilldubh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 048
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- (continued from previous page)or wheaten or rushes but they mostly used wheaten straw. The way in which they thatched these houses was with a little fork and the prongs of which was three or four inches long.
It was called a thatching fork. Every course which was taken up, the house was sown with this fork They put a rope on it and pulled it up and down through the thatch till it was all sown. It took a man about a week to finish one of the houses and when one was finished he went to another and thatched it. It was a trade in olden times. When the houses were thatched they were very tidy and neat in appearance. They were also very warm and comfortable.- Collector
- Hannah Douglas
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Alsmeed, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr N. Douglas
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Alsmeed, Co. Monaghan