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School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin

Location:
Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 028

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    My grandfather went to Davidstown school. It was a big school and there were two rooms, one went up under the gallery of the present church, and the door was down where the gate is now.
    The children used sit in desks. They wrote on slates until they went into third standard and they got copies. There was a black-board in the school, and they used to write down sums for the young children.
    In the morning there was Catechism and then reading and spellings
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Lambert
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolamaddra, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Thomas Lambert
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 73