School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Baile Hoiste, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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- Collector
- John O' Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Hoiste, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- The houses of former times were built of mud and roofed with limbs of trees and thatch. Others were built with stone and roofed with slates. The house in which we are living has a new roof and old walls. About twenty-five or thirty years ago our Grandfather got it reroofed. The walls are made of stone and cement. The roof is made out of good sound timber and thatch. The windows are framed with timber. There is an entry in(continues on next page)