School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór

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   “Mrs Kitty O'Connell (née Kelleher) of Farrankeal aged 80 gave me an account of their eviction and some interesting recollections of her youth.”

   

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   Paddy C. and so on. Tadg got no money from themselves - but they fed him and he slept in the house at night often, Kitty was then under 8 years of age so that we can place Tadg's school at Lacka-na Stooka about 1866. The books used were to be bought in the village of Kingwilliamstown She had a Primer - ABC - she remembers and then she was promoted to, as they called it "Red made aisy" (Reading made easy) thence to Sequel No I then to Sequel No II. In her case when she left "Red made aisy" she discovered that there were no Sequel Ones in the village and bought Sequel Two, She mastered that. Tadg never taught a word of Irish. She couldnt recall what she paid for the foregoing books but she knew the Second Book (which followed) was 2pence. At the age of eight she was sent to the National School at Kingwilliamstown and spent seven years there.

   A Miss Crowley (later Mrs Bennett) and a Miss Barrett (later Mrs Hickey) both natives of Millstreet were the teachers in the Girls' school. Peter FitzPatrick and a monitor Connie Finnegan from "the mountains" were in the Boys'

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Díarmuid Ó Muimneacháin

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Príomhoide

   Informant

   Mrs Kitty O' Connell

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   80

   Address

   Farrankeal, Co. Cork