School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)and were called "Earthen Floors". There are a few still in this district. Mr Patrick Nolan, Calary Kilpedder, and Mrs Stephens, Carrigower, Kilpedder.
Half doors were in every house in this district long ago, and when they got broken the people never bothered to put them up again and so it is nearly gone out of fashion. Only in some houses they are still to keep out the hens and chickens. As the people have no way of shuting them away.
Wood and turf was the most plentyful fire in old times, and is still.
Lights were made from rushes in formet times. They usedto get a whole lot of rushes and peel them and then they use to soak them in some sort of oil, boiled down from the fat inside of some beast. These used to be made in every house in this district.
More people use to get some sort(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs J. Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
