School: Ceapach an tSeagail
- Location:
- Cappataggle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Antoine Ó Monacháin
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- (continued from previous page)Geography. The children used to use pen pencil and slate. Slates were used mostly.
The theachers used to teach indoors. They were not strangers. When Miss Devany died the school was changed to Mr. Tarpey's loft in Cartron. A girl the name of Miss Egan was teaching there. When the new school was built Miss Egan was teaching there also. - There was an old school in Killroaran, Killian, Co Galway. It was in it the year 1858. School was carried on in farmer's houses. Patrick Malinn was the school teacher. The scholars paid him a shilling a month. He was a stranger. The teacher used to lodge in a farmer's house. English and Irish were the subjects taught. Irish was mostly spoken by master and pupils. The books the pupils had English Spelling books and Irish spelling books. Writing was done on slates. The children used to sit(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Lohan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappataggle, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappataggle, Co. Galway