School: Coill Beithne (C.), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 11266)
- Location:
- Kilbeheny, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: -
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“The house - Usually there were only two rooms but some had three - two and the kitchen - all one storeyed.”
(continued from previous page)a hole left when building to bring air to the fire. When the w wind blew in from the south too strongly, the hole was stuffed. All turf that was used.
The outhouse were usually in front the dwelling house and sometimes some were behind. The hens were inside in the kitchen near the fire in the Coup.
Boundaries were stone and sod fences with furze growing on the ditches by some.
Mullins was the name of the most plentiful families in the locality.
There is a fairy fort in Coolatin, underneath M.Cunningham's house, and an old churchyard in Kyle southeast of it.- The band was turned with spades made by a smith and afterwards these spades were made into horseshoes.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- M. Cinningham
- Gender
- Male