School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 62
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There was a school at Patrick Fitzbibbons of Araglen, Kilworth, Co, Cork, about fifty years ago. It was an old man named Martin Fitzgibbons that was teaching there and he had only one hand. It was a hedge school.
This was how the pupils were arranged. Some were sitting against the ditch and some were standing and others were kneeling down. This school had no name.
There were only three subjects taught in this school. These three subjects were called The Three R's which means Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic. There was no Irish spoken in this school.(continues on next page)
