School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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- (continued from previous page)pupils to their houses after school hours and he spent the night in their houses turn about.
In some places the children were taught in a barn or disused houses and sometimes in byres the manger stick serving for benches.
The salary the teachers were paid was something like a shilling a quarter contributed by the children.
The principal book the children had was called Reading made easy the Grammar, Arithmetic, spelling book and writing with a quill pen was also taught.
The pupils sat on forms and wrote with their copies on their knees.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Woods
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboghil, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corlea, Co. Leitrim
