School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loch an Tóraic Theas, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0256
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- (continued from previous page)in either a barn or cow-house belonging to the parents of the children and the teacher was kept in the house for a week and then removed to the next house for another week and the children had to bring two or three sods of turf every day for to make a fire.
They used to make a big fire of turf in the middle of the barn.
The seats they used to have were stones left here and there and the children used to sit on them.
They used to have a slate to do their sums on it.
Jim Sullivan
Loughatorick
Moyglass
Kylebrack
Loughrea
Co. Galway
- Collector
- Jim Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loch an Tóraic Thuaidh, Co. na Gaillimhe
