School: Crosskeys
- Location:
- Carraig an Tobair, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Thomas Greene
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0977, Page 309
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- (continued from previous page)consisted of a kitchen and two bedrooms. In any of these houses where the family was big, it was a common feature to see a settle bed in the kitchen. This bed had to fulfill two duties, a bed by night and a table by day.(continues on next page)
- These houses are becoming more numerous nowadays. The very poorest can live in a good two storied slated house under the cottage system. These slated houses consist of a kitchen and bedrooms. There is generally two rooms downstairs and one of these is generally set apart as a parlour, the bigger one is always kept for the kitchen as there is nothing more important especially in farmer's houses than a big kitchen.
- Collector
- Norrie Maguire
- Gender
- Male
