School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- (continued from previous page)easy to sew it. The had a big needle, and the used to put the sugan in to it like a thread There was one man inside and when the man out side used to put up a layer of rushes ad when put in the needle to the other man and he would put it out again. This they did until the house was complete.The inside of the house.
They had chimneys made of rods woven like a basket or made with rungs, then put rods in through them and plaster it with mud and made it with rushes out side or else have none atall. They had no chairs only to make it of straw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
