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School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)

Location:
Fartamore, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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    About six miles from Tuam in Edward Ford's land in Lehid there was a school long ago. Mr. Courtney was teaching in it.
    He was paid at the rate of one shilling and six pence a quarter. The scholars paid him.
    He hated Irish, anyone he heard speaking it he would slap them. The children sat on forms. When he was going to call the rolls he would whistle on the children. They wrote with quills and tied their ink bottles to their coat buttons. All children under eight years wrote with pencils on slates.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Íde Ní Mhanghain
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Gill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lehid, Co. Galway