School: Carrickgorman

Location:: Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
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to count Irish was spoken and taught both by master and pupils, the teachers were in favour of the Irish language because very little English was spoken in parts. They wrote on slates got in old quarries, the children sat on stones they had no blackboards but they sued large slabs of stones.
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Composition - Old Crafts - Creel-Making

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Little Jim Stafford of Carnalynch, was a famous creel maker in his day.
He was about four feet six inches in height, he wore a long black whisker about eighteen inches long, he made his living by making and selling creels, he is dead about forty years ago.
The tools he used were a rod, a

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