Very few are whitewashed as there is no lime nearer than Carn. Those of 2 rooms prevail. They are not clean or comfortable. The English language is increasing. The food of the people is potatoes, water, milk and some meal.
Most people keep a cow and all burn turf and a little bog wood.
They live from 60 to 80 and are about 6 in a family. They marry very early, frequently at 16, and in one instance in the memory of man the united ages of one couple did not exceed 28. They keep St John's Eve and jump over bonfires in which they burn bones. There are no patrons' or other saints' days peculiar to the parish. Malin is the chief resort for the people of Inishowen to celebrate these superstitions, but women frequent a place in Gortlack to obtain clay to cure their complaints.