Portumna National School (N.S.), Female Register, 1856 - 1862
Handwritten register for girls, register numbers 4 to 640, recording pupil details, such as name, date of entrance, register number, age, residence (such as Portumna, Attygara (Attigar), Glebe, Workhouse Road, Cooldorragha, Caher, Creggeen, Shanbally (Shanvally), Graigagowan (Graigueagowan), Gortaha, Cappasallagh, Curraghmore, Clogernagh, Lehinch, Lickmolassy, Newbridge, Oldhort (Oultort), Thornfield, Stoney Island), occupation or means of living of parents (such as e.g. gardener, servant, farmer, and labourer), the date (written as 8/62 i.e. Aug 1862) 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, and left town), also records Religious Denomination and ‘time previously spent in education’, recording date first started and total number of years in education.
(Part of folio 3 and 4 missing).