School: Drumrora
- Location:
- Drumroragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mulligan
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- Collector
- Briget Plunkett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismacanigan Upper, Co. Cavan
- Long ago the people built their houses in low hollows in the land they built the walls with blue clay and roofed them with bog oak. These were called mudwall-houses. The walls were dry and warmer than the stone or cement ones. There was(continues on next page)