School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)each day to it eager for learning.
They wrote on slates with slate pencils. They sat on stones in a ring around him. They learned almost everything in English. In Highwood there was an old hedge-school. It was in a barn that the pupils were taught. They wrote on their knees with quill pens as there were no steel pens at that time.
- In Geevagh there was a very old man named Patrick Donnelly. He made fancy baskets and creels, some of which he sold to his neighbours. For fancy baskets he charged a half-crown but there were not so many of them sold in the locality. He made dozens of them, most of which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila O' Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardvarney, Co. Sligo
