School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (roll number 5215)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John McGee
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- (continued from previous page)place, and he was never seen or heard of afterwards.
- About a hundred years ago there was a school at Seefineagh, three and a half miles from Ardnaree. It was something like a barn. The school mistress that taught there was Mrs Neary. She lived in Hill Street, Ballina and she walked the three and a half miles every Summer and Winter. The nearest house to the school was a quarter of a mile and the owner was Mr Thomas Mullen. He was the only man in the village who owned a house. It was he who was always sent for a priest or a doctor during the famine when anyone in the village was ill.
- Informant
- Michael Ferguson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo