School: Brideswell (roll number 15413)
- Location:
- Brideswell, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0268, Page 222
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- There was an old school in Brideswell. It was built about six yards from the old chapel ruin. The track of it is entirely wiped out now. It was a small house but a lot of people went to school there. They had very bad seats in that time. Each boy going to school got the nicest stone they could for a seat. They had slates for copy-books and slate pencils for writing on their slates. It was a small thatched house and there were only two windows and one door in it. But there was always one good thing in it and that was a very big fire.
