School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 027
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- My mother told me there was in ancient times a school in my Great-grandfather's barn in Fearnaught. The barn is still standing. The teacher's name was Master Brian Carter. He taught both boys and girls. He was a small man with a hump on his back. He was a land surveyor as well as teacher and up to a few years ago his books and surveying chains were to be had.
In the school there was one window and a small chimney and each boy and girl had to bring two turf each morning for the fire and they had to pay a shilling a quarter for school fees.
Their pens were made from goose quills and their ink from blackberries. They had no desks only low stools and they wrote on slates with slate pencils.
My Great-grandfather and also John Flanagan went to this school.
- Collector
- Peggy Newton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Tommie Newton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 44
- Address
- Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim
