School: Cora Finne (C.) (roll number 12908)

Location:: Corrofin, Co. Clare
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 168

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was Liam Hogan. They had no desks or stools and they used sit on stones. They used to speak a great deal of Irish. They used to write with quill pens. The master was living at the back of the school about a mile away.

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In a carpenters - work shop belonged to Tom Ryan in Moyhill a school was held for a few years. A teacher named Paddy Liddy from Kiltoraght spent numbers of years teaching the girls and boys of the district. The children had no seats to sit on only on the blocks of wood belonged to the carpenter. The master sat on a plank of wood. The people of the district had great respect for him. He stayed in a little house with Pat Crow, but some-times he would go into a farmers house in the place and stayed there for the night. Every morning all the school children should bring two sods of turf to make the fire. There was no Irish taught there as the children were not willing to learn it. They were taught Prayers and Cathechism, Reading, Arithmitic and they wrote on slates. They were taught a little Geography and Grammer. The people of the place who sent their children to school to him paid him but he was supported by the people. He stayed in Moyhill for five or six years and then he removed to Knocknareeha and he had a school there in a cabin. Both cabins were tatched and had mud floors and only one window. If the priests of the parish were passing they would come in and the children always looked very
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Topics
1. objects
  man-made structures
  buildings
  schools (~4,094)
Language

English
Informant
John O' Reilly
Gender

Male
Age

55
Address

Knockacarta, Co. Clare