They were taught cookery at school. In the summer time they went barefoot to school. Tessie said they were pleased because the boots were very heavy and their feet would very easily get sweated.

On the way home from school they called with her aunt who made soda bread for them on the griddle.

Two inspectors came to the school one year.

If the families needed help to dig out crops the children would be allowed to take the day off school. The mother would have to go and help dig out the crops whether they had babies or not. If they did have babies they would take them and make a bed for them at the side of the field and lay them in it.

They played different kinds of game at school like skipping and ball games and they would do a lot of drill exercise.

Dunouragan was a quiet area at times. There were a lot more people in Dunouragan then. At one stage there were 40 people.

All the houses that were built were crowded because the families were larger then. Everyone walked or cycled.

She said that it hasn't changed that much. There was a shoemaker and a school in Dunouragan.

The school was thatched and had a number above the door.

Tessie worked in a shop in Belfast for a little while and once owned a shop of her own with a little bit of everything on it.

She also said that there was a mill up at Sharkey's that still stands today.