School: Clochar na Trócaire (Scoil Naomh Seosaimh) (roll number 13770)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Sheabhlaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 234
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On entering, the pupils and teacher had to stoop. The children were seated on slabs of timber with a long bench in front of them on which they left their slates when writing. In this bench there were holes the size of the slates to keep them in place. They used to write on these slates with slate pencils. The pupils had copies made from skins which when dressed were called vellum. They wrote on the vellum with pens made from goose quills. The ink which they used was made from the berries which grow on the privot. The people knew no Irish. Sometimes Latin was taught.Maire Ni hAodha
- Collector
- Máire Ní hAodha
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Séamus Mac Eoin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Drumard (Magerraun), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Sean Mac Eoin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
