School: Lochán Mór
- Location:
- Loughane More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)Tade Leary (80 yrs.) of Tigh Lice Finne, Dursey Island went to school one day to McNamara who also taught in Dursey & who not alone knew no Irish but despised the language.
They were fixing the two-legged desks in an old cow-house belonging to John Harrington "Cásca" of Cill Mhichíl while the building at Cúm Mór that served as a school was undergoing repairs - being thatched.
The floor was naturally uneven but when Tade got a desk to put in place he thought the cause of its unsteadiness was a fault of the desk when he said, "Tá an diabhal so ar leath-chois."(continues on next page)
