School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (roll number 5215)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John McGee
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 218
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - 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.
