School: Ballyheedy, Ballinhassig (roll number 15550)
- Location:
- Ballyheedy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Haonghusa
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- The majority of all farmers and labourers houses in this district in olden times were built of mud and had tatched roofs. The walls were about two feet thick with a layers of rushes every eighteen inches apart. The roof was made of light larch trees and then thatched with rushes and in some cases with wheaten straw. The inside was a large space. A partition of some kind was erected in the middle of the house to form a bedroom. The fireplace was at the gable end and the chimney was made of stone and mortar. In all the old houses there were two very small windows.
- Collector
- Joan Kiely
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr C. Kiely
- Gender
- Male