School: Tobar (B.)

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1. Old Schools

   

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   There was once a master named Horan. He "teached" school in a barn. The name of the place where he "teached" is Killahan - Tubber. There was a lot of children going to school that time. There walls of the barn are to be seen still. The barn was built about one hundred years ago. They wrote on slates that time. They started to go to school at ten years of age that time.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Joseph Cornally

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloghatanny, Co. Offaly

   Informant

   Joseph Grennan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Cloghatanny, Co. Offaly

2. Old Schools

   

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   There was an old school in Braca. It was taught inside an old house. A man came to the district. He asked the people to send their children to him. He stopped in an old vacant house. Each scholar brought two sods of turf every day.
   They sat on sods of turf or stone. They paid him a penny a week. The teacher had a spelling-book. The scholars called it a "reedy madazy" which is thought to mean 'reading made easy'. He wore a swallow-tail coat. The farmers gave him potatoes and milk. He taught Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.

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