School: Scoil N. Comáin, Hollymount

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   “I remember when I was a lad a "Patron" to be held in Roundfort.”

   

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   After the school in the Catholic Church being broken up by the Parish Priest, another school was opened in a house on the Kilmaine-Roundfort Road (in the house that Michael Gannon lives now).
   A Mr. Sullivan taught there. This was the same Thomas Sullivan as taught in the school in the Church. The new school was held in his own house. The junior scholars used to go to James Concannon and the senior pupils attended Sullivan's school.
   Sullivan's father became assistant clerk of the Union in Ballinrobe. Thomas Maye was the Clerk of the Union and he used to send out for Sullivan (the young teacher's father) to assist him with the books. Frank Sullivan was coming home from Ballinrobe one night with the books, when he fell into a flooded part of the road and drowned. The books then were sent to Thomas Sullivan the son (and young teacher) and I used to be holding the chip (to show him light) while he used to be working at the books. During the month of July he used to go into Ballinrobe and stay there making up the Union accounts. Later he became Relieving Officer for the district and threw up the school.

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Donnchadh Ó Riain

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Address

   Rahard, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   John Merrick

   Relation

   Not a relative

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   85

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Hollymount Demesne, Co. Mayo