School: Roisín (roll number 12395)
- Location:
- Rusheen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chorcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 146
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- Long ago during the Penal Days the Irish were forbidden to open a Catholic School and they found it very hard to learn But they had such a desire for learning that a schoolmaster used to teach the children in remote places by the side of a fence or in an old cabin, or in a grave-yard.
The children loved their master and each child used to give him a penny a week for payment. They made their own ink and their own pens from goose-quills. During the Summer nonths the children helped their parents on the farm, or they went to some other farmer and earned the fee for the schoolmaster.
When they taught in a grave-yard they used the head-stones for black-boards. There was an old school in this district at Leeds, Aghinagh and as a master used the teach there named Mr Dineen. They used big stones for seats and slates for writing on as they could not afford to buy books. These schools were carried on for a long time until the National Schools opened.
- Collector
- Judie Cronin
- Gender
- Female
