School: Cor Bealaigh

Location:: An Corrbhaile, Co. Shligigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 041

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The children used to bring in stones and place them round the floor to sit on. The teacher sat on an old box, or chair, and gave round a book to each child to learn a piece out of it. The subjects taught in it were English, Latin, and mathematics. They wrote with quill pens. The teachers were very poor, as they were getting poor wages.
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There was only one teacher in it, and he was Mr Ferguson. He lived in a little room built to the back of the school. He was paid by ordering each pupil to bring a shilling a month. They had no furniture, except a small table for the teacher to write on, and a chair. The teacher made quill pens for the pupils and also for the people of the district.

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