School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 288
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- (continued from previous page)in Andy Flannery's house. The teachers were paid by the parish priest of the place. Sums and English reading were taught in the school. There was no Irish spoken by the master or pupils,. The teachers knew no Irish. English books were used by the pupils and the master. They used write English with pencils. The children were arranged in a round ring sitting upon stones. They only remained three months in the district.
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- Collector
- Kitty Benton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coonmore, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Pat Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coonmore, Co. Tipperary
- Long ago people used to make all their own candles. First they used melt the tallow of a cow in a grisset. Then they used to get a candle mould and put it stand(continues on next page)
