School: Cill Liath (roll number 8696)
- Location:
- Killeagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0396, Page 262
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“Near Bally-macoda in a place called Brownbog.”
Near Ballymacoda in a place called Brownbog their lived a man named Patrick Fitzgibbon, he was a farmer, and he also held a shcool.This school was once a dwelling house. When it was turned into a school. One room was set apart as a bedroom for the master and he slept there by night. This man was a native of the place. In the school the children wrote with chalk on a slate. This school was held fifty years ago.
About seventy years ago their lived at the top of Cork road, a man name Griffen he held a school. This was also a dwelling house and the man was a native of Killeagh.
- Collector
- Bridie Mc Grane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Cathern Murphy
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeagh, Co. Cork