School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
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- (continued from previous page)the hearthstone. They used rush-lights for lighting at night and these were made locally.
- In former times some houses were thatched with rushes and others with wheaten straw. The rushes were dried before being used and the straw was got when the wheat was threshed.Long ago nearly every house had a bed in the kitchen. It(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Kathleen Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Drumloose, Co. Westmeath