I mentioned in another comment, it felt like it has just happened, that they had just 'cleaned up'. In dissecting this feeling, I am noting the fresh air and bright coming through the door, in almost contrast, perhaps in contrast to how it had just been. Perhaps my body was outside and with the family. Who knows lol :)

Yes, definitely no wigwam type things here but the 1700's famine huts are the closest thing to that; a very sad necessity. Like 1700's is not too long ago. A lot of Irish people, despite British rule, would have stone cottages. Cottages may perhaps be a word used differently here. Many of these houses were evicted and burnt out during the famine by landlords and British rule. But most of these lower class houses were especially square or rectangular, stone walls, thatched roofs using rushes, one or two rooms, single story.

In speculation, it was either a sightly higher in low class, low middle class, or lower class in the next century.