School: Connach, Inis Céin (roll number 10557)
- Location:
- Connagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghealbháin
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- (continued from previous page)seats where the pupils used to sit. The master used to sit on a chair near the door and the small classes used to come one by one to read. Near the door were two small sticks about a half foot long they were called the pass. Each pupil took one of those when going out and no more than two could go out at a time. Every scholar when leaving school in the evening should say good evening sir to the master.There was no blackboard or a clock or a watch in the school.
- The animals at home are goats, donkey and a pig. One of the donkeys is called "Jim."
When we want the hens to come to the food we say "tuk! tuk." To call the(continues on next page)