School: Tashinny, Colehill (roll number 10223)

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   and a small one called a half door for to admit the light. Turf and sticks were used for fire and the people of olden times used to cut and peel the rushes and dip them in fat and hang them up in bundles to shew light in place of candles or oil. My father Charles Cody (about 40) told me this. Sarah Cody, Age 10 Bawn House, Colehill, Mullingar.

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2. Old Houses

   “The houses of long ago were mud wall.”

   

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   The houses of long ago were mud wall. The mud was got out of a drain and there were rushes mixed through it. There were thatched houses. Most of them had a bed in the kitchen. It was called a settle bed and it was mostly placed at the back wall. The fireplace was generally in the gabel wall. The front of the chimneys were made of clay and wattles. Some of the houses had no chimneys, there were holes in the end of the houses and the smoke went out

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