Fumigating the byres with juniper was a method adopted to ward off disease.
It seriously annoyed the Captain at intervals when he came upon his daughter directing operations in barnyard or byre.
Like the house the byre too had been ruined, gutted with flame.
Now the dairy was divided into two parts, the sleeping-room and the byre.
The poultry was shut up, the cattle were all in the byres, there was scarcely a sound of animal life.
Byre-dwellings were common, with humans and cattle inhabiting the same space.
While the findings primarily concern this particular setting of space and time, they may be relevant for other parts of the 'byre-house region' as well.
And no, men were no longer buried in their byres, largely because it was proscribed by the authorities.
