School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lainn Chille, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- (continued from previous page)time they liked because no guard used to come to see how they were going to school.
2. When the rolls would be called the fourth and fifth would set in the desks and do a bit of writing. The sixth would go around in a line and the master would have a chat about agriculture for about a half an hour. Then eleven o'clock would come and they all would go at geography. They would be at that until hald eleven. They would be at Catechism until twelve and then they would go out for a half-hour. When the pupils would have their lunch eaten they would play their own games. The boys would play their own and the girls would play their own. These are some of the games the girls used to play. "Jenny(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lainn Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Mary Mc Ging
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lainn Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
