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School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)

Location:
Menlough, Co. Galway
Teachers:
Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
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    19.7. '38

    Before the national schools were established the pupils were taught in hedge-schools. Some people called them the foidín. They were situated in a field. They were held in the open air. The school-masters used to hold school in farmers houses and they held school in the hedge schools also.
    The teachers used to spend a term with every child. They used not get any government pay only just whatever the farmers wished. The teachers used to teach Irish, English, Arithmetic, Latin, French and Grammar. When the teachers began to teach English at first
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Rita Lally
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Devalley
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    91
    Address
    Pollnabrone, Co. Galway