School: Cill Críosta
- Location:
- Kilchreest, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0035, Page 0288
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Seanscoileanna (continued)
“In the penal days people were not allowed to go to school . . .”
(continued from previous page)the tombstones.
Seanscoileanna
“There was an old school on the North side of Gortnamona . . .”
There was an old school on the Perth side of Gortnamona long ago. There were a lot of children going there. When the teacher would slap them they used to run home. Some of the children came six miles to be educated there.
The roof was a thatched and one wild stormy night the roof fell. A few men brought a load of slates to put a roof on the school. They were very drunk and they did not know where they were going.
Just as they were passing a big hole they slipped in and were drowned. The scholars who attended that school some of them are still living. - Collector
- Anthony Cormican
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynacurragh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Stephen Deely
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynacurragh, Co. Galway