School: An Chathair Gharbh (roll number 13896)
- Location:
- Cahergarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Dubhghaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 366
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- (continued from previous page)of writing in use in early ages the letters of which were formed by combinations of short lines.
- There was an old school situated in the west end of Cahergarriffe. It was a small thatched one. They had only one book, a slate and a slate pencil. Every scholar had to bring two sods of turf daily and the scholar that would not bring them got two slaps of a holly rod. There was another one of these old schools in Dunboy for Protestants and the remains are still to be seen. It was a small round cement one.
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- Collector
- Seán C. Ó Súilliobháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Concubhar Ó Súilliobháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
