School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)geography, history, English and grammar. Irish was not spoken in those days. It was not compulsory to go to school every day, so the attendance in summer was very small. The master got a penny a week and he lodged in the pupils houses every night. The hedge masters were called poor scholars. He taught in the school for about twenty five years.
- Collector
- Emma Leyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Leyland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon