School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 096
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- About eighty years ago there was an old school in the townland Eden near Dowra. It was not like the schools of to-day.
It had a thatched roof and a clay floor and two small windows. When rain would come, it would come in through the windows and the (school) scholars would be wading in pools of water on the floor. This school was built along a hedge and was like a byre.
It was a master Curnan that was teaching in it. The scholars used to learn Sums, Reading, Composition, Catechism and writing. They had to write on slates with slatepencils. There used to be a fire in it in the winter. To secure a winter's fire each pupil jas to bring two sods of turf each morning.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Hugh Mc Auley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Eden, Co. Leitrim
