School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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- (continued from previous page)them themselves from the straw of the oats or wheat. Some thatched them with rushes.
There were few windows in them as the people had to pay a tax for them.
Philomena Healy.
- Houses in the district had always glass for windows. In olden times the floors was made from yellow clay. This was mixed with water and when set would be as firm as a cement floor.
All the houses had half-doors formerly but now only one third of the houses in this district have half-doors.
Turf fires were the most common.
A rush candle gave(continues on next page) - Collector
- Tim Mulready
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Irishtown, Co. Westmeath
