School: Naomh Eoin, Béal Easa (roll number 14176)
- Location:
- Foxford, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Oide sa chlochar
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- (continued from previous page)Master that taught the people of Muchenaugh how to speak English because they knew nothing but Irish and they used to call him “maighisghirin. He came to Curloman and everyone that had a barn used to give it to him a few days in the week.
They had but one book and that was a spelling book and in that book as the meaning of words. They were never taught history or geography and they had to write with a steel pen. The girls who were in fourth and fifth standard were as good of scholars as the girls of eight today. They had to write also on blue slates and there wer blue pencils fir the purpose. They also made a hut for the “maighisthirin” and gave him a little garden outside it. You can still see the walls of his little hut in the bog outside the village of Muckenaugh.
- Collector
- Mary Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corlummin, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Michael Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corlummin, Co. Mayo
