School: Árd Bán (roll number 11904)
- Location:
- Ardbane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Briain Ó hEarchaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 153
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“Once upon a time thre lived in the townland of Letterfad three men. These men were very good swimmers.”
(continued from previous page)people took them home. They began to search for the other man's body but they did not get it from that day to this.
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“Once upon a time there was a school at John McGrory's, Tullynaha.”
Once upon a time there was a school at John Mc Grory's, Tullynaha. The name of the teacher was Master Mulhern. He taught in it for a year. Anyone that would speak Irish, it would be thrashed out of him and they would call him "the mountain gull". The amount of children that was in it was about a hundred. They had to eat stirabout. They had to sit on a stone. This school was in the year 1831. (no title)
“In the year 1846, there was a great famine and scarcity of food.”
In the year 1846, there was a great famine and scarcity of food. The potatoes were all killed and the corn did not grow. It was a blight that came on them.(continues on next page) - Collector
- John J. O' Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Tullynagreana, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Niall Brogan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 33
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tullynagreana, Co. Donegal