School: Drumgownagh

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   stirabout and a quate of oat bread for lunch or as the old people say a "snack". The dinner consisted of a "cash" of roast potatoes and milk and sometimes boxty.
   The principal subjects taught were Reading, Writing, Spelling, Arithmetic and Catechism. The Children were taught to say their prayers in the Irish Language. They were splendid scholars considering the chance they got. They used slates and slate pencils. Their pen a goose quill was real Irish manufacture of which the were very proud. They loved the mother tongue and nearly all the old people who attended these schools can say their prayers in Irish as good to-day as when the were attending the old hedge school which dotted the hills and vales of Erin. There is no trace of these old schools now. And the teachers are taking their last sleep in the neighbouring Church-yard, but their memory still lives in in the hearts of the Irish people. How

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Siobhán Ní Choistealbháig

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cornageeha, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mr John Farrell

   Gender

   Male