School: Glostremin (roll number 15441)
- Location:
- An Ghlasdromainn, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Maire Nic an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0212, Page 151
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- About the year eighteen hundred and thirty seven there was an old school in the townland of Shrewane and I often heard my mother telling that her grandmother went to this school. The schools that were in those days were not like the schools we have now a days. They had no books in this school they wrote on slates with little pencils called slate pencils and each one had to bring a turf to sit on. The name of the master that taught in this school was master Gildea and he wore a swallow tail coat and a pair of nailed boots. The school was a little thatched at the foot of a sloping hill and the floor was not like the floors we have, it was a clay floor and the children never wore a shoe Winter or Summer. There were no Rolbbooks in those days and the children could quit school any time they liked.
- Collector
- Margaret Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- An Ghréach, Co. Liatroma
