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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 408

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    because he was brief in stature and any time he would ask for an old saying they used to say, "there are good goods in small parcels".
    In this school-house there were no desks or no seats and the pupils used to have to bring four sods each. They used to have to bring one sod each for the fire and the other three to make a seat for themselves for writing on and for sitting on during the day. At that time there were no copy-books in Ireland and the people used slates and slate pencils. Shortly after this copy-books were first made in Ireland. These copy-books consisted of three hundred leaves and when each pupil had his copy-book finished he was at liberty to stay at home from school. At this time there was no writing-pins like what the school-boys have now and on that account they used to write with pointed quills.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Fox
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael Fox
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ballaghaugeag East, Co. Galway