School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)and paid him with food and perhaps a few pence. He lived on and settled down married and his great grand children are still in the district, not very wealthy and still craving for travel.
They used a sort of Primer or 'Universal' Some of those still to be found I believe - as also Reading-made-Easy which they called (Read-o-m-daisy). Spelling was a pet subject at which the old people of this district excelled. They wrote with quills pointed at one end dipped in ink made from berries (as Bill-berries) also on a sort of framed slate with burned embers.
