School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)

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   In the early days during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were very few schools throughout Eire. When our forefathers went to school they had no pens to write with but quills and they had no desks to sit on. They usually sat on blocks. The schools of those days were everything but comfortable Perhaps some out house belonging to some farmer with a clay floor, and one window was used as a school. The Irish language was not taught in these schools. At night some men used to go around from house to house and try and teach the Irish language to the people. If those men were caught it was a serious charge against them, as the British Government forbade the teaching of their native language. The old school for Castlemartyr was changed from Mogeely in the year 1840. It was an old house on the site of which St Joseph's Church Castlemartyr is now built. The combined average of this school was 260 pupils (130 boys and 130 girls). Mr P. Scannell a native of Millstreet, Co. Cork was Principal and his wife was assistant, and they had two monitors.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Paddy Abernethy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Castlemartyr, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr Abernethy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Occupation

   Shopkeeper

   Address

   Castlemartyr, Co. Cork