School: Tattenclave

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   the teacher. The bread they took to school was hard bread made out of oaten meal. It made them strong and healthy. The meals the children got were: their breakfast, which was porridge; their dinner, which was mostly milk and potatoes, or porridge, and the last meal they got was their supper, which was porridge also. Then they had to take a walk and go into the house again and go to bed. They had to rise at seven o'clock in the morning and go to their work.

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2. Old Schools

   

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   In Greagh in Brigid McEntee's farm there was a hedge school. It was indoor in an old house. All around there used to go to it. Above this lone bush there is a big stone where mass used to be said in olden times.
   In Tattenclave in Mich Magna's farm there was an old school. This was a little bit in off the Tattenclave road. They taught nearly all the lessons that are taught in the schools nowadays but they taught no Irish. Most of the scholars went home for their dinner. They got an hour every day. It was James McEntee

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