School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)
- Location:
- Béal Átha Feorainne, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 04_019
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- (continued from previous page)on his turn brings sixpence, and sometimes they would get him his dinner.
The scholars those days had no desks or seats like now-a days, only two sods of turf to sit on and to use their knees as a desk.
They used to have a large fire in the centre of the floor and and all the pupils gathered around it to learn their lessons. They had large sheets of slates to write on, and their books were Primers which were handed down from child to child. They learned reading, writing and arithmetic.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary M. Gately
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chealtrach Dhubh, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Mike Cox
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal Átha Feorainne, Co. Ros Comáin
