School: Killashee, Longphort (roll number 12515)
- Location:
- Killashee and Aghakeeran, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Seán Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)set in an old chest.
- Houses of long ago were much different from those built during the last 40 or 50 years. The houses of long ago were built on a very shabby scale. They were mostly built of yellow clay, mixed with cuttings of hay or straw which when mixed was valuable for holding it together as it was liable to moulder away when it got real dry. There was also a class of round field stones used as the people of olden times did not understand much about quarrying lime stone or stone cutting. Houses of long ago were usually round(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Madeline Frances Lee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyclare, Co. Longford
- Informant
- John Wilson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Ballyclare, Co. Longford