Portumna National School (N.S.), Female Register, 1863 - 1875
Handwritten register for girls, register numbers 635 to 836, recording pupil details, such as name, religion, date of entrance, register number, age, residence, occupation or means of living of parents (such as e.g. gardener, servant, farmer, and labourer), the date (written as 8/63 i.e. Aug 1863) entered into various classes, such as reading classes 1 to 5; arithmetic; grammar subdivided into Parts of speech, parsing and syntax, derivation and composition; geography, sub-divided into maps only, local and descriptive, and physical and mathematical; writing; and various extra branches such as British Poets, trigonometry and agriculture; date of leaving, and cause of removal and destination of pupil (e.g. unknown, employed at home, illness, and left town).