School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)their own house at three o'clock in the evenings and the teacher went to a farmer's house.
- Our school is standing 97 years and the first teacher that taught in it was a Mr. Banann from Knocknacurragh Castletown G., Before Mr. Banann taught in this school he taught a hedge school on his own land in Knocknacurragh. He went to a hedge school on the Dublin road in Kilbeggen to a teacher of the name of Gilbert Carey a brother to the present Joseph Carey Castletown G., Mr. Banann was known to be a great judge of boys. One day he was coming from Kilbeggan after selling oats and he caught a man on foot. He told him to get up on the car and he would carry him as far as Castletown. They started talking and did not feel until they were near Castletown. The man told him that he was a poor scholar and he was looking for a Mr Banann a teacher. Mr Banann told him he was the man he was looking for but that he could go back to where he came from because he could not teach him anything. He knew by the talk of the Poor Scholar that he knew more than he knew himself.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- J. Ennis
- Informant
- Hugh Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Conranstown, Co. Westmeath
