School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- (continued from previous page)reading book for all, and the best scholar in school each day was allowed to bring home the book for the night.
- I have heard my father speak of two old schools in my district about which his father told him.
One of these schools was in an old byre belonging to the Mc Crann family of Liscallyroan, Carrick on Shannon. Co. Leitrim. The people were taught reading, writing and arithmetic and they called them the "Three Rs" also Catechism and bible stories.
They had a whitewashed wall in the byre on which(continues on next page)
