House at Capnagower, with its bed outshot, or ‘hag’, partially obscured by a modern flat-roofed extension. The outshot is a part of the original structure of the dwelling.

House at Capnagower, with its bed outshot, or ‘hag’, partially obscured by a modern flat-roofed extension. The outshot is a part of the original structure of the dwelling.

Lime-kiln, Capnagower, Clare Island.

Food press and painted dresser with pierced decoration placed against the rear wall of a dwelling house in Capnagower. The dresser partially obscures the earlier bed outshot (a space now occupied by a large press). Dressers and other items of furniture were made by Island joiners, often from flotsam timber or by furniture-makers on the mainland. Dressers were introduced in the latter years of the nineteenth century.