School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 230
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- Old Houses.
The houses of this district were nearly all built of stones in former times, and the people used cow manure for mortar to fill in the open spaces.
They were all thatched with wheaten straw. All the houses of olden times had a bed in the kitchen in the corner next the fire. It was called a press bed or settle bed.
The fireplace was always at the gable wall.
Some of the fronts of the chimneys were made of clay and wattles and some of them were made of stones and mortar.
It was a very odd houses which had a glass windows. Some of them had only a wee hole in the wall.
Patrick Caulfield,
Alamena,
Scotstown,
Co Monaghan,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Caulfield
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghanameena, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Rose Caulfield
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Aghanameena, Co. Monaghan
