School: Cortubber

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   they were. They were taught Arith, Reading and writing all English. They had no means of learning any Irish, though people in this district use the Irish names for a good many things. Sea gulls the whelauns, cipins and everything ends in 'in' - caneen, placeen, houseen etc.

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2. Roads

   

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   Old people here say that several of the roads around were made the year of the famine and that the men were paid at the rate of sixpence a day and a man told me that his mother saw a widow working with the men breaking the stones and that she carried the stones on her back too trying to earn a few pence to ward off starvation. The Ganger was usually a protestant, one here was Ganger Ganly and his ghost is around yet and often met at night on the road. He had a glass eye and it shines still so the story goes.
   This old lane by Cortubber school is the oldest in the district it goes all the way to Boyle through farms now but the traces can still be seen. The coach road of course had to be made.

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