School: Béal Átha Uisce (roll number 4836)
- Location:
- Ballard, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Séaghdha
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- In the year 1851 they had an old thatch cabin in Killmacowen which they used as a school house. There were no glass windows in it of fire places either. On wet days the rain used come through the roof. The children had no seats to sit on only sods of earth. They had no slates to write on only stones. Sometimes at[?] harvest they used make some ink out of blackberries and writing pens out of quills of geese. The school master whose name was Shea had no home of his own nor received no salary for his teaching. When his days teaching was over he looked amongst his scholars to see which of them would invite him to there home(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Neil Ní Luanaighe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Felane Middle, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Diarmuid Ó Luanaighe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Felane Middle, Co. Cork
