School: Tullyveela

Location:
Tullyveela, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0967, Page 066

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0967, Page 066

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    but Irish among the people till his coming. The text-books used were the Primer and the Sequel. Writing was seldom taught.
    In those day there were no steel pens. It was a great trade making writing pens out of goose-quills. The teachers pay was from three pence to one shilling per pupil, per month of the school year.
    There was also a hedge-school in Ardra, in Leitrim to which many of the children from the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Goldrick
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullyveela, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Fitzpatrick
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corrachomera, Co. Cavan