School: Keelogues (roll number 13183)
- Location:
- Keeloges New, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Cheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)children could not afford to pay. Reading and writing were the only subjects taught, and Gaelic was the language used.
They did not use steelpens as we do now, but they wrote with quills pointed at one end. They had no desks, but sat on small wooden stools which they cut from the trunks of trees.
At that time an Englishman lived in the village of Knocksaxon who made ink and supplied the whole Province of Connaught. He made it from the juice of berries and soft black rock, which(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Danganmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Danganmore, Co. Mayo