School: Cill Mhic Eoghain (roll number 9848)
- Location:
- Kilmackowen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Hurdail
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Old Schools
“About a mile from this school is a small village called Carrig, there was an old school.”
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About a mile from this school in a small village called Carrig, there was an old school. There is nothing to be seen of it now but its ruins. All the old people in this district were taught in this old school, but there are not many of them alive now. It is almost a hundred years since this school was used, and in that time there were no tables or stools in schools. They used get two or three sods of turf and sit on them, and this was(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Murchadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Eyeries, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Donnachadha Ó Suilleabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Eyeries, Co. Cork