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School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)

Location:
Gortaleam, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038, Page 0202

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    About seventy years ago. My grandmama went to school in a barn in Curragh. There were no schools that time The teacher would spend a week in each barn in the neighbourhood and the scholars followed him from place to place and the paid the teacher. This barn is knocked down now
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    My mother remembers of a old school of the bush of Cashel. In olden days the schools were made of stone. There were thatched roofs on them. The scholars used to to have to bring a bit of straw every morning. There were about eighty scholars in it. Mr Murphy was the teacher in it. There were
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary T. Cloonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockaunbrack, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs B. Cloonan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    37
    Address
    Knockaunbrack, Co. Galway