School: Drumrora
- Location:
- Drumroragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mulligan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0994, Page 411
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- (continued from previous page)would throw six stone sixty feet. Another man from Ballyjamesduff was able to kick the six stone weight seventeen feet.
- There was an old school in the townland of Keenagh. It was in the masters house and his name was Master James Smyth. He got a little from the scholars. What ever they liked to give him. They learned to read and write. They had books slates and pencils and seats of sods and stones along the wall. He taught for some time and went away to live in another house in the same townland and he taught from some time. Then he went up and taught in the old school at Drumrora and while the present school was being built he taught in Flood's barn.
