School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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- (continued from previous page)paid them to teach their children at night. Mary Roche paid the teacher and fed him and she permitted her neighbours' children to be educated free and she also gave them their dinner free. In other schools the children paid two pence a week and the best scholar paid six-pence and in that way the teachers were paid. They taught all Irish because they could not speak English. They wrote with quills and made the ink with black berries and enough ink was made to last till the black berries came out again. This ink was called "Dubhach Dubh. Pencils were not used and desks were made by digging holes in the ground for the feet. They had no books but the teacher wrote their lessons each day on a sheet of paper. The teacher remained in Mountinfant until the first National school was built. The first one in this district was in Kingwilliamstown and the teacher was a Protestant known as Mr O'Dea and he introduced English(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cróinín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Scrahan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Seán Ó Connaill
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80