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School: Cortubber

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Cortober, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mary A. Burke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 026

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 026

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    “After the famine in the workhouse of Mohill...”

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    After the famine in the workhouse of Mohill Co Leitrim there was a very large number of children boys and girls. These children had to wear a most humiliating uniform - the pauper's badge. There was a Workhouse school master for the boys and another woman teacher for the girls.
    Every day the teachers took the children for a walk and one day the boys were brought to play in the bog. They played there for about an hour and went home. At Supper one little boy was missing, he had fallen into a Bog Hole and no one saw him. The poor teacher was dismissed though.
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