School: Naomh Pádraig, Knockvicar
- Location:
- Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)For a lamp an ink-bottle was used, in which a strip of corduroy was burned as a wick. A pint of oil lasted for the winter, but the ink bottle was hidden on Candlemas Day.There was an old house in Annagh, Corrigeenroe which consisted of one rickety room, where a man, his wife and eleven children lived. All the children slept in a shake-down. Some of them slept at one end and the others slept at the other end of this miserable bed. This was called "heads and points". There was no chimney, just a "Poll deataigh, and when the door was opened the evil smell(continues on next page)