School: Cill Ruis Íochtair (roll number 4106)
- Location:
- Kilrusheighter, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Toirdhealbhach Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)pencil when teaching. The pencils were often got by breaking soft gravel stones on the shore. They read a book called "Reading Made Easy" and they always called it "Reada-ma-daisy
The children used to sit on the floors and on stools made of sticks and were not in classes. They had only a few books. There was no blackboard at first but later on Dan Kilcullen made a blackboard in his school.
In this district after Manus More stopping the first National School was opened where Pat Grehan's old house is now in Kilrusheighter and was taught by a man named Melvin from Farniharpy. In 1875 this new school was built in Garryduff and was still called Kilrusheighter.
Manus More taught A = cúpla tighe, B = speaclóg, srl. (?)Maureen Marley
Corcaghmore,
Skreen,
Co. SligoFrom
John Caheny,
Ballyfarris,
Skreen,
Co. Sligo.
74 yrsFrom his father. Would be now 110
- Collector
- Maureen Marley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corkagh More, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Caheny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Ballyfaris, Co. Sligo
