So I know this is a really random question but I have a question sheet on Far and Away for school and one of the questions was "What was Josheph's house made of before it burnt down?"
If ANYONE could tell me that would be great : )
THanks so much.
The roof was made of thatch, which would have burned like a torch. The walls, composed of the carboniferous limestone which typifies building materials in this part of Ireland (filmed in the vicinity of Dingle, County Kerry, on the southwest coast), would retain moisture and thus would fracture in the heat of the blaze (limestone is burned in large open kilns to produce lime for whitewash). In reality few homes were burned this way during the period, as an evicted house could simply be re-occupied by a new land tenant, presumably one with deeper pockets, and better luck, than the family Donnely.
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