Portumna National School (N.S.), Female Register, 1841-1853
Handwritten register for girls, register numbers 1 to 1369, recording pupil details, such as name, date of entrance, register number, age, residence, occupation or means of living of parents (such as e.g. shopkeeper, servant, farmer, baker, labourer, shoemaker, hotel-keeper, bridewell keeper, and weaver), the date (written as 8/42 i.e. Aug 1842) entered into various classes, such as reading classes 1 to 5, arithmetic, grammar, geography, book-keeping, mensuration (the act, process, or art of measuring / Measurement of geometric quantities) and algebra, date of leaving, and cause of removal and destination of pupil (e.g. unknown, illness, left town, went to another school, went into service, dead) for example
Reg. no. 1191 Bridget Mullen, Portumna, aged 8, 'gone to workhouse', Aug 1848;
Reg. no. 1269 Mary Cormack, Glebe, aged 13, 'dead', May 1849;
Reg. no. 1271 Eliza Whelan, Portumna, aged 14, ‘went to England’, Jun 1849; and
Reg. no. 1301, Maria Whyte, Portumna, aged 6, left due to 'illness', April 1850.