School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)with a man named Prim and he was paid by a weekly subscription from the children's parents.
The children were seated on rough timber logs settled into the banks of the hedges by the children's parents.
After Mr Gillyfoyle resigned, a teacher named Fitzgerald was appointed and after about two years teaching a school was built in a placed named Cottlesrath.
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Other names
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Maureen Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Kellsborough, Co. Kilkenny
