School: Cill Moibhí (C.) (roll number 13081)
- Location:
- Kilmovee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 143
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- (continued from previous page)never saw his/her father has the cure of a sore mouth. The cure for water on the brain is a seal.
- About one hundred years ago there was an old school situated in the farm of Dominick Doherty. It was an old thatched barn with holes in the walls for windows. The ruins of it now are overgrown with grass, moss, and nettles. It was about the size of an ordinary country house. It had an earthen floor and stones for seats. In Wintertime they had to walk on boards to cover the pools of water in the floor. The teacher who taught in it was Antony O'Grady, he lived in Ballaghaderreen. His salary was about thirty pounds(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bea Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clooncarha, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Veasey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymaging or Castlemore, Co. Roscommon
