School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 070e
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- There were no schools and the children used to go to a certain hedge and there they sat along in rows and were taught by a man who was a little more learned than the ordinary man he was called the school master. Old Collins, Hyland and Mrs. Collins called "Nappy" used teach around here. She used have a stick and if you didn't have your two sods- she wld be at the door
"Nappy beat him in the head" she wed say to he husband
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- no tea was used long ago. Coffee was used instead. When tea was introduced into the country it was bought by the ounce. As they knew little about it, it(continues on next page)
