School: Ballyheaffy (C.), Kilworth (roll number 10660)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Mary Butler
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 214
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- About ninety years ago there were a few schools around here. There was one in Túr na Gaoithe near Ballyduff. Mrs Murphy was the teacher. She came from around Tallow in County Waterford. She is dead years now. The people built a small hut for the teacher to teach the children. She used to live in that hut. She taught the children English language because the English Government would not let them speak Irish. They would not pay the teacher either. The pupils had to pay her themselves. Mrs Murphy used to charge the pupils five pence each a week. The pupils used to write with geese quils on paper. Sometimes they used to write with small stones on big flat slates. Mrs Brackett of Túr na Gaoithe went to that school and my great grandmother's grandmother.
About forty years ago there was a school in Doon. Mrs Carey of Doon taught the pupils in that school. She taught them some Irish and some English.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Whelan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ducarrig, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mike Connolly
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Ducarrig, Co. Waterford
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