School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)
- Location:
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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- There was one hedge school in my mothers district. It was a house situated in Carrowen. I do knot know the name of the teacher. There were no blackboard used.
They used pencils, pens and slates in my father's school and in my mother's school. My father's school was situated in Killea and my mothers was situated in Carrowen. The teachers that taught my father were Mr. and Mrs. McGlonegal. The books they used were:- an arithmetic, a history, an Irish reader, an English reader, a jotter and a geography.
- Collector
- Mary Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garshooey, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- David Murray
- Gender
- Male
