School: Killough (roll number 9540)
- Location:
- Killulagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mary Lynch
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- Houses and dwellings in my locality are in very good order nearly all the smaller householders keep their houses and gardens very neat and clean.
The farmers houses are nearly all two storeys, well built with stone, but present erections are raised or built with cement or cement blocks. These cement blocks consist of powder cement mixed like mortar and set in shape and form but longer wider bricks. These bricks made from cement are mostly used in the present scheme of the newly built houses are erected. The contracter makes his own bricks cement stakes, and also cement pipes, for sewage. The newly erected houses in towns and also in country districts are called Bungalloes. These bungalloes are to be seen under erection throughout the country.
Some of these houses are built from cement mixed with lime and sand which mixture is set into shapes or frames and let harden. The shapes when set for the walls, consist(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary K. Lynch
- Gender
- Female