School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 186
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- It is a great blessing to the children nowadays to have such fine National schools compared with the schools their forefathers were taught in. In disused houses which we call "Cowlaics" the children got their education in former days, except in the Summer when school was held in the open-air. Some local men who taught in those schools, or perhaps strangers who were considered very clever.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic were the subjects most frequently taught there. The writing was done with a pencil or local slate, and on paper it was performed with a goose's quill. Very few attended those schools, and the teacher's pay was very small - a few shillings or so in the end of the month and it was wealthy children who went to them also.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Florence Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardagh, Co. Cork
