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   “There was an old school in 1840 where the Temperance Hall is now.”

   

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   There was an old school in 1840 where the Temperance Hall is now. The land on which it was situated belonged to a man named Grant. A man named Geelin was the teacher there and he was an Irishman and a Catholic.
   The teacher was paid by the pupils who gave him eggs and meal. The subjects they taught in this school was how to read and write and do arithmetic in Irish and English. The books they had were slates and slate pencils. When they used to write with ink they used a goose's quill and the ink they had was made from the mónags that grows on the heather and the black-berries that grown in the Boultry bushes. The pupils were seated on three legged stools around the fire. There was no blackboard in the school.
   The lights they had were peeled rushes dipped in fat and stuck down in a cow-dung on the lid of a gallon. One night one of the pupils got burned and the cure that had was a poultice of the cow-dung they had

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Natty Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Virginia, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Peter Carroll

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Virginia, Co. Cavan