• 1.5 million people lived in cottages in Ireland in 1845.
• Cottiers lived in one room huts made of stone or turf.
• Cottiers didn’t pay rent. Instead they worked on the landlord’s farms. The family slept on beds of rushes.
• Tennant farmers’ cottages had no windows and only a hole in the roof as a chimney.
• Some people still live in thatched cottages today.
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By Brendan Bradley (and this font is called Bradley Hand!)
