School: Bundoracha (roll number 14331)
- Location:
- Bundorragha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúbhán Bean Uí Bhúrca
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- In olden times there were no slated roofs on the houses they were all thatched roofs. The people got the thatch on the mountain-sides. In olden times the people slept in the kitchen in a place called the "Cailleach". The old man of the house and his wife that slept in the kitchen. The fire was placed beside a wall. Some houses were built of scraws and sand and more of the houses with little stones and a lot of scraws. The chimneys on all the houses(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Niaidh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Padhraig O Niaidh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Bundorragha, Co. Mayo