School: Killough (roll number 9540)

Location:
Killulagh, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mary Lynch
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    Very few farms of between twenty or fifty acres are in the neighbourhood...

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    programme demand: the parents dont seem to appreciate education. They dont seem to realise is uses, a level life, seems their ambition if it is their ambition at all. The children are very listless, and aimless, any thing that they do know, has to be pounded into them against their will: as for school books, very few are purchased by the children; a couple of families only purchase their requirements.

    Mary Lynch 13 . 9 . 38
    Lisclogher
    Athboy
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary K. Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisclogher Great, Co. Westmeath