School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)

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   with pencil. The children were seated on sods which they brought to supply them with fire. There was no blackboard so that the teacher had to write with a lump of lime for chalk on the wall over the fire, where the soot had it, blackened.
   Matthew Bruton.
   Informant - Mr J Bruton, Ringtown, Castlepollard.

   

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2. Old Schools

   

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   There was an old school which was called Killtoom school. The ruins of this old are to be seen in Mr. Andy Lestrange's field in Templetown, Castlepollard. The late Mr James Duffy's grandfather taught many children. The parents paid money to the teacher for teaching the children. Irish, English and Arithmetic were

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Smyth

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Grangestown, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Mrs Dunleavy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bigwood, Co. Westmeath