Scoil: Virginia (B)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal)

   “There was an old school in 1840 where the Temperance Hall is now.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   There was an old school in 1840 where the Temperance Hall is now. The land on which it was situated belonged to a man named Grant. A man named Geelin was the teacher there and he was an Irishman and a Catholic.
   The teacher was paid by the pupils who gave him eggs and meal. The subjects they taught in this school was how to read and write and do arithmetic in Irish and English. The books they had were slates and slate pencils. When they used to write with ink they used a goose's quill and the ink they had was made from the mónags that grows on the heather and the black-berries that grown in the Boultry bushes. The pupils were seated on three legged stools around the fire. There was no blackboard in the school.
   The lights they had were peeled rushes dipped in fat and stuck down in a cow-dung on the lid of a gallon. One night one of the pupils got burned and the cure that had was a poultice of the cow-dung they had

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Natty Doherty

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Virginia, Co. Cavan

   Faisnéiseoir

   Peter Carroll

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Virginia, Co. Cavan