School: Clifferna
- Location:
- Clifferna, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sister Mc Ardle
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- (continued from previous page)leaving school they would get a copy book to write upon.
- Long ago school was taught in little cabins or in the teachers house.
At that time a hedge school master lived in the townland of Carricknamadoo, Kilinkere. He taught school in a little mudwall house.
The children did their composition and Arithmetic on slates with slate pencils.
It was mostly English that was taught and the names of the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Sexton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghagibney, Co. Cavan