School: Curratavy

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   to college for six months and his sister taught in his place.
   When he came home he paid for getting a school built. It was a long low school with a tatched roof and five windows on the front and two on the back. A door one one end and a fireplace in the other. It had a boarded floor and flags round the fire. There was six desks up the centre of the floor and a pass up along each wall.
   There was a [?] desk, an eisle and blackboards, two chairs. a table, and over the fire place there was a fra [?] clock. In the end there was a place for the children to hang up their book-bags and coat and caps
   Up to the third class the children wrote on slates. They higher classes did their compositions, dictation, and transcription on copies. They did their arithmetic, geomatery, and algebra on slates. The books they had were:- reading-books, spelling-books, arithmetic, gramer, geography agriculture, and a catechism. He taught for forty two years in this school. The pay was small in those days.
   There was a sewing-mistress in the school for two hours every day. She taught

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlin Ní Giolla Pádraigh

   Gender

   Female