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School: Kiffa

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Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0992, Page 080

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    wind. When building these houses they walls were made of blue clay or "golla" clay & made it stick together with straw, rushes, hair, wool, feathers, broken bottles, bits if iron, bits of wood & all kind of rubbish. The floors were mud well trampled in & a covering of green rushes over this. From the habit of putting down green rushes when visitors were expected arose the habit "To get green rushes to scatter before a person, when you have not seen them for a long time.
    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
    Maud Lowry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Graddum, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Hugh Smith
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graddum, Co. Cavan