1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballycumber (C.)

School: Ballycumber (C.)

Location:
Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Mrs Fenelon
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 366

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 366

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ballycumber (C.)
  2. XML Page 366
  3. XML “Old Houses”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Old Houses (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    the fires on the hearth. The kitchen was always the biggest room in the house and in some cases it was a ktichen, bedroom, sitting room and all combined.
    Two windows only were to be seen in any house.
    Most of the houses were ill ventilated homesteads. Some times the people had wooden beds and in many cases heaps of straw served as a bed.
    In odd cases the people and animals lived and slept together as the peoplec oould not affored outhouses for the animals.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Ford
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Joseph Donohue
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    25
    Address
    Ballycumber, Co. Offaly