School: Ballintemple
- Location:
- Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Nic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 235
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- Mud wall houses with small windows and iron bars were the houses the people inhabited about sixty years ago. The reason of the small windows and iron bars, was, because rogues came through the windows at night and stole the butter, and iron bars were put in them to keep the rogues out. The houses long ago were thatched with scraw and reeds, the scraw was found on the boghole's, and the reeds on a nearly lake.
A bed was kept in the kitchen and it was called a "Taester." Most of the old houses had fires in the centre of the kitchen with a hole in the roof, to let the smoke out.
- Collector
- Bill Graham
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William H. Graham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dillagh, Co. Cavan
