School: Beacán (C.)
- Location:
- Bekan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 239
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- From the Penal days to the National Education Act of 1831, Hedge-schools were common in every part of Ireland.
Those schools, who were taught by wandering scholars, frustrated in a measure the design to reduce the people to illiteracy, and kept the flame of knowledge alight through out the island.
The teachers generally stayed only two or three months in each district. They taught out in the open air in sheltered places chiefly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nell Morley
- Gender
- Female
