School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- (continued from previous page)to school that time were present.
It was on the 17th of November 1936 we came into the new school. As it was a school day the master continued on the work from half ten to three o'clock. It was ten when mass was over. Then father O'Toole went home. The master had to get two or three big lads to put everything in its right place in each room. He had to pull the partition across so that he would have two rooms. Then he put the desks that was heaped up in one corner in their place. He put an equal number of desks in each room. While the master and the big lads were doing this work, the rest of the scholars were playing around the school. About half ten or eleven he called them all in and then they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
