School: Ballybay (C.) (roll number 1345)
- Location:
- Cornaseer, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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- (continued from previous page)or seats, they stood round in classes. There were no blackboards, and with slate - pencil they wrote. This school was in an old barn.
- Long ago the people used to make candles with rushes. My Grandmother had a spinning wheel, and she used to spin there own wool. John Clogher, Curramore used to make baskets out of sally rods. Paddy Lenord, Curramore used to make churns and crocks.
- There were all kind of bread made in olden times, such as wheaten bread,(continues on next page)
