School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)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.
- Collector
- Maud Lowry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Hugh Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan