School: Drumcormack (roll number 13201)

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1. Hedge-Schools (continued)

   

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   from the appearance of establishment no one would imagine Latin and Greek.
   The willingness of the people to make sacrifices for the eduction of their children and their co-operation with the schoolmaster was indeed something to be proud of.
   The people in these schools had no pencils or pens or blackboards. They wrote on bits of slates with sharp stones or sometimes with another bit of slater.
   They sat on stones in the school as they had no desks or seats, When doing sums they always began the wrong side. in simple addition, they began with the hundreds and added blackwords for example is an addition sum they began to add the hundreds, then the tens and then the units.e.g

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Josephine White

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bricklieve, Co. Sligo