School: Toomore (roll number 16401)
- Location:
- Toomore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0154, Page 119
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- The road from Mr. Flynn's bridge to the place where Toomore old school is is said to be made in the time of the famine of '48. The pay they got was sixpence a week and the ganger got a shilling. Women in those days broke stones.
Stones. The prayer the people in ancient times used to say when adding a stone was "Lord have mercy on the dead."
