School: An Cnoc (B.) (roll number 16122)
- Location:
- Knock, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Riain
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- The first schools were hedge and barn schools. The teachers in those schools were learned old men who were paid by the people. They were not paid by the state as they are now. They went round from place to place teaching in barns. They went night in turn with there scholars to lodje. they got a penny a day pay for teaching. They were that poor when they died that the old people made the remark in Irish. "A white horse, An old school master, And an old soldier. Three things that there was never anything thought(continues on next page)
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- James Kielty
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- Informant
- Martin\ Kielty
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- Male
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