Ireland pictures : Gallery 4 : Deserted village, Slievemore, Achill Island
The houses at the deserted village, Slievemore, Achill Island, are all rectangular in shape and typically measure about 7m in length and 4.75m wide. However, with walls of 75cm thickness, the interiors were considerably smaller. Some of the dwellings have a second, much smaller room attached to the gable end. An entire family and various livestock and cattle would inhabit the single, windowless, main room, with beds typically made of heather and rushes laid onto a stone slab. The south-facing gable ends of the cottages tend to be higher than at the northern end, to account for the steep slope of the Slievemore mountain on which they are constructed.[more...] |
