School: Drumcar (roll number 16771)
- Location:
- Drumcar, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Mrs Bell
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- (continued from previous page)A bargain is sometimes called a "hooley".A groat is out of use now.
- Most of the old houses in this district have mud walls -The mud was procured by having yellow clay was dropped in the yard, and straw cut into six-inch lengths, thrown over it, and water. Then some cattle were driven on to the heap and made to walk round and round on it till the clay was tempered - that is fit for building. It was then thrown up in a wall, quite roughly, and when nearly dry it was cut down smoothly, or comparatively so, with a spade.Most of them had thatched roofs, the straw for which was procured from the local farm -Nearly all the old houses had a settle-bed in the Kitchen. It was usually placed(continues on next page)