School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gort an Bheithe, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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Schools long ago 23: 5: 38
Long ago the people had not schools like nowadays.They would select one learned man to teach the others.Then they would all gather together to some barn or old house.
There they would learn to write and do sums and the pencils made of stones.- Collector
- Tomás Mac Conmara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cnoc an Aonaigh, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- Martin Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- An tOileán Mór, Co. an Chláir