School: Ballyroddy (roll number 12629)
- Location:
- Ballyroddy, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: -
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- 5-12-1937"There they had it' as Matty Keogh used to say "Matty was a kind of a scholar who used to read the weekly paper for his neighbours long ago, he did not know how to read very well, and when he met any word he wasn't able to pronounce he used to say "Oh! boys there they had it", so the opening phrase was used, and is used to the present day by anyone in the locality who cannot pronounce a difficult word.
Matty Keogh lived alone in a house in the downland of Ballyroddy. Parish of Elphin Co. Roscommon and died about thirty years ago. He was a farmer and had a little learning . Elphin, Co. Roscommon, who died about sixteen years ago, at the age of eighty years. He never went one day to a National School, but he went one day to a hedge school taught by one Charlie Connor at where Ballyroddy school is now.
- Collector
- Alphonsus Rushe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shankill, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Rushe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shankill, Co. Roscommon
