School: Kilmyshal (roll number 14777)
- Location:
- Kilmyshall, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: E. Mac Niocláis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0891, Page 115
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- 115There was an old school in Rossard. It was in an old house. The teacher's name was Miss Annie Kearns, and she went home to Ballycrystal every night.
She used to teach English Reading writing and Arithmetic. There were about twenty pupils attending. Every pupil paid two pence a week. After about three years she stopped teaching in the old house and went around to the farmer's houses to teach and every child she taught they paid three-pence.
There was another school in Cametigue. The teacher's name was Richard O Connor. He used to teach English reading and writing. The children had an acre for a play-ground. They made their own ink.
There were no steel-pens then and they had to use goose-quills to write. They had no black-boards. There was another in Ballynavocran. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Long
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rossard, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Patrick Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Rossard, Co. Wexford
