School: Derryhanee (roll number 16228)
- Location:
- Derryhanee, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Mrs B. Wilkinson
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- (continued from previous page)two in it if required. There was a frame of wood from which a curtain was hung over the bed. The candles were called Gillions split-out of bog deal. Some used candles made of rags and tallow They had a candlestick with a boss of timber and an iron holder made by a blacksmith.
- The houses long ago were very different from the houses we have now. They were made of mud and thatched with straw or rushes. There was a hole in the wall for a bed which was called a bunk or settle-bed. In some houses the fire was in the middle of the floor, in others at the gable wall. The chimneys were made of sticks and bags. There was a brush for a door. There are quite a number of half doors in my district now. They had rushlights and bog-deal splinters.
- Collector
- Una Neary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tearmann Bearaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mark Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Tearmann Bearaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
