School: Carnalassan (roll number 6106)
- Location:
- Carrownalassan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Eoghain
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- (continued from previous page)so the scholars sat on a few benches or stones, or blocks of wood which they brought themselves.
The children learned very quickly because they knew when the teacher left they had no other opportunity of learning again. The pupils were so bright that some of them used to write poems. The following is a poem which one of the pupils wrote:-
"Still crouching beneath the sheltering hedge
Or stretched on mountain fern
The master and his pupils met
Feloniously to learn" - My father told me about a man who made baskets and cleeves and in that way he made his living. I heard also of a man who(continues on next page)