School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 345
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- (continued from previous page)was a large tree which had been blown down by the wind and that was when the pupils sat during lesson hours. The subjects taught were Arithmetic, English reading and writing, Grammar, Geography and chiefly Catechism. The pupils were about sixty in number and were between the ages of eight and thirty - some of them nearly old men. It was not an uncommon sight to see boys and girls of nine or ten years learning their Alphabet beside their brothers of about twenty years.
School commenced at ten a.m. Half an hour was allowed at midday during which children played and the men smoked their dudgeens as tobbacco was cheap and plentiful. Lessons then resumed and school was over at three o'clock.
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