School: Cor Bealaigh

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1. Old-Time Schools (continued)

   

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   The children used to bring in stones and place them round the floor to sit on. The teacher sat on an old box, or chair, and gave round a book to each child to learn a piece out of it. The subjects taught in it were English, Latin, and mathematics. They wrote with quill pens. The teachers were very poor, as they were getting poor wages.

   

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2. Old-Time Schools

   

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   There was only one teacher in it, and he was Mr Ferguson. He lived in a little room built to the back of the school. He was paid by ordering each pupil to bring a shilling a month. They had no furniture, except a small table for the teacher to write on, and a chair. The teacher made quill pens for the pupils and also for the people of the district.

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   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Madge Donegan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Newtown, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Mrs Browne

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Newtown, Co. Sligo