1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Tunnyfoyle

School: Tunnyfoyle

Location:
Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 238

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 238

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Tunnyfoyle
  2. XML Page 238
  3. XML “Old Schools”
  4. XML “Rhyme”

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

  1. Old Schools

    Share Share Post
    There are a lot of of old sccl schools many are to be seen yet. Tunnyfoyle school is a very old one. it is about a hundred years old. There are a lot more old schools - one is beglieve. There are a lot of those old schools (shools shcl) knocked down. There was an old school in Drumanspic. The masters name was Niochlas Clarke. he had no home to stay in at night and he would go home with one child one night and another the next night. That was what he did adn the way he paid the people for keeping him was helping them to work after school.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  2. Rhyme

    Share Share Post
    You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.
    Cancel
    Transcription guide »
    By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John P Clarke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Seefin, Co. Cavan