School: Ballyjamesduff Convent

Location:
Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Sr. Mary Theresa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0996, Page 444

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    Castlerahan graveyard. It was inside in a field owned by a man named Thomas Brady and upwards of about forty pupils attended it. There they learned to read and write. They used slate pencils and slates for writing and they went to school barefooted in summer and in winter the children who came a rather long distance carried their shoes in their hands as far as the school and put them on there as most of the people at that time were poor and shoes were dear.
    Most or all of the books they used were written by hand as printed books were scarce and very expensive.
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  2. An Old Coin
    One day my father was digging in a garden at the back of the house. He was at a corner which was not dug in many years and he stooped to pull some weeds that were getting entangles in the spade. In doing so he caught sight of a coin in the clay. At first he thought it was a common penny but on examining more closely he found that it was heavier and larger than a penny. He took it in and we tried to clean it but without much success. We found on one side a
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Julia Fox
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Castlerahan, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Terence Fox
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    Over 60
    Address
    Castlerahan, Co. Cavan