School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 169
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- (continued from previous page)which were made of heather. When night fell a fire of fir was made and in some houses it was the only light." Fir splinters were lighted by the fireside and in some houses a lamp with no glass was lighted and round this the old women knitted
In some houses there was a large hole of water in the floor and from this the ducks drank. The bed in the kitchen was called the "Fal". In some houses a bottle was placed in a hole in the wall instead of a window
- Collector
- Tessie Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
