School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)
- Location:
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Peoples
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- (continued from previous page)The subjects taught in those schools were reading, writing, geography, grammar, sums, and drawing. The teachers didn't know Irish in those days and so it wasn't spoken in the schools.
The scholars had reading books but it was usually on slates they wrote. The scholars had planks for seats but the master had a chair to sit on.
They were very good scholars for the chance of attendance they got.
They seldom got to school unless during the Winter months. During the other seasons the boys especially had to say at home to work on the farm.
There was another school in Cosia (sp) and there was another in the Mullinrow.
It was in the Mullinfow that my grandfather Johnnie McKerney attended. The school was held on a loft in a farm house belonging to Billy Dougherty.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
