School: Aghakee
- Location:
- Aghakee, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Govern
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0994, Page 033
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- About 100 years ago an old disused Catholic Church overlooking Crosserlough Lake was used as a school. It was a thatched building with a roof made of black bog oak. The floor was made of clay. The children sat on round pieces of turf cut in the bog with a slane, and dried. The younger children wrote on slates with the broken stems of clay pipes and the bigger ones wrote on paper with quill pens. The teacher's salary which was a very small one was subscribed by the children every three months and the amount given by each child was about 1/-.
The foundation of this building is still to be seen in the old graveyard at Crosserlough.
A man named Patrick Campbell a native of Crosserlough is supposed to have been a poor Scholar. He used to go from place to place teaching the children of people who could afford to pay him. A son of his afterwards became a National School Teacher.
- Collector
- Shaun Briody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rockfield, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr John Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Latnadronagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Philip Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Rockfield, Co. Cavan
