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School: Iorball Sionnaigh (roll number 16923)

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Scotstown, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0956, Page 125

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    Folklore
    OLD HOUSES
    Our house is over three hundred years old and it is thatched.The houses are still thatched.The old people would keep a bed in the kitchen at the side wall and it was called the settle bed.The fire was at the gable-wall.It was never at the side wall.The chimney was made out of boards and clay and sometimes clay and wattles.
    They never heard of houses that had no chimney or houses having the fire in the centre of the floor.They always used windows on the house.The floor was made of blue clay.Half doors are common in some places yet.Long ago they were very common.
    They burned turf long ago
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosaleen Trainor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumdesco, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Michael Treanor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumdesco, Co. Monaghan