Scoil: Edmondstown (C.)

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1. Old Houses (ar lean)

   

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   because hens and pigs would be roaming around the yard and they might come in and the half-door would stop them coming in. There are several old thatched mud-walled cabins in the district still with small windows, half-doors, and wooden chimneys. Turf was burned in the fires, they had a bellows something like a forge bellows, but smaller, to blow the fires.
   People made their own candles long ago, they used cord or tape for wicks. They used flint instead of matches. Splinters were pieces of pine wood, cut with a billhook and cut smaller with a knife, they used it as light, and it lasted longer because there was resin in it.

   Annie May McCarthy

   Told to me on 10 Jan 1939 by
   MrsMcCarthy
   Edmundstown
   Rathfarnham
   Co Dublin

   

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   Annie May Mc Carthy

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   Mrs Mc Carthy

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