Chair and fireplace

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Primitive fireplace w/cookware

Notice the Cailleach (bed outshot) to the left of the picture. This was where the older members of the family slept.

Scottish - In many Scottish cottages, the beds were the walls. Slide the doors shut and a whole family disappeared. A box bed was a bed built into a wooden frame, with sliding panel doors and curtains. By the 19th century it was the main item in a cottager's home. The name goes back further. In the late 16th century it was written as a "closs bed", a closed bed. It did more than hold a mattress. It was a wardrobe, a linen chest and a room divider all at once. It had shelves for candles and belongings, and some could be locked. Cottages often had two, set foot to foot or back to back, so that a single room became a "but and a ben", a kitchen on one side and a room on the other. One recorded interior shows how they were used. One interior held two grown men, two girls, an elderly woman an

Glencolmcille Folk Village. Fiddle for those welcome travellers and a blunderbuss for those less welcome. A very neat and well to do fireplace.

Glencolmcille Folk Village. Interior of one of the cottages showing the Outshot bed and fireplace.

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