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1. The Ancient Schools

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Before National schools were built the children were taught in old barns, shades and at the back of ditches and sometimes in farmer’s houses. There was a man called Conal Cooney he had a school in a little house in Keadne. In those days the teachers were paid by the people and the people paid them however they liked. Long ago the teachers knew Irish also but they dare not speak it or they would be prosecuted although the people of Ireland loved Irish.

   Very few of the children in these days had books. They did all their writing on slates. The master sat on a little round heathery sod called a “huisteog.”

   Some of the teachers stayed some place near to where they had their schools and others stayed in their own houses.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Bridget A. Hone

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Finnadoos, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Hone

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Finnadoos, Co. Dhún na nGall