School: Carrigabruise
- Location:
- Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mc Enrae
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- (continued from previous page)178it was green grass, hedge or read lay beneath the banks of snow, A country house-wife who had the luck of replenishing her larder before the storm was constantly visited by less fortunate neighbours whose store of provisions "ran out".
Motorists sought refuge and lodging in farmhouses as it was impossible for them to travel. The newspapers were loud with accounts of tragedies.
Maureen O'Connell, Lislea, Lisduff, Kells.
- Old Schools.6nd Nollaig 1937We cannot appreciate in full the conveniences of our present day schools until we compare them with those long ago. The desks and seats replace flat stones or the crude benches of later date and the pens and pencils represent the vast improvement made on the stylus of old. At a small cross-roads near my home, it is recorded, there(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen O Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lislea, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick O Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Lislea, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Terence O Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Lislea, Co. Cavan
