School: Ballinamona
- Location:
- Ballynamona, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael Mc Keon
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1007, Page 029
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballinamona
- XML Page 029
- XML “Old Schools”
- XML “Old Schools”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)of Killigriff and they were numbered one and two It was the number my father attended.
About forty years ago number one was a Catholic and number two was a Protestant. The two school are now in ruins. There were no pens, pencils or copy books used and the children had to write on slates with stone pencils. The teachers house was built to the end of number one and it was built away from number two.
The teacher's name that taught in number one was Miss Hayes and in number two was Mr Faulkner and Mrs Faulkner.
- The "Hedge Schools" existed in the early part of this centuary. There was one on the Lough in Lea mountain. I don't know the teacher's name but I heard from my Grandfather that there was neither books(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dympna Curran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Owen Tully
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 98
- Address
- Greaghnadarragh, Co. Cavan
