School: Dernakesh (B)

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   scholars. A few stools and chairs which were taken by every pupil were their only desks and when they were writing they had a piece of board under there slates.
   The present Mr. Whitfield's father was their only master who was a farmer but got a good education because he was a protestant from Belfast. The pupils were big and small and every day one had to give a days digging of potatoes.
   Another school was within a quarter of a mile from it but twenty years before. It was a famly of Reillys who lived there and the father had a little education. The neighbours asked him to teach them and he agreed. He had a little parlour which he taught in at night in the winter time. He supplied a little fire himself and the pupils had to bring a penny every night for their education. Since that the place was called Peters Parlour.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Farrell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gallonreagh, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mr Whitfield

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killatee, Co. Cavan