School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)
- Location:
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 14
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- (continued from previous page)number of small pebbles and placed [them] on the ground and in this way they learned to count.
- It was held in the open; writing was done on slates and they had a blackboard. Irish was not taught.May could not find out the teacher’s name. He went to a different child’s home every night where he was fed and got a bed to sleep in.The above school was held on Mr. James Mc Phelini’s [?] hill, Tullymore, Ballyshannon.
- Collector
- May Carberry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullyhorky, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Florence Clarke collected this story about an old school which was held in a field behind a Mr. Holland’s house in Cashel – a townland between Rossnowlagh and Cavangarden.(continues on next page)
