School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)
- Location:
- Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grannacháin
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- In this district there were many hedge-schools before the National schools were founded. There was a hedge-school at Greigin Bridge on the Castlebar road. Nora Hegarty was teaching in it. She got a shilling a day. After she stopped teaching in the hedge-school she got married to John Loftus in Doonoroya. She had a hedge-school in Loftus's house for a long time and she got two shillings a day. She died two years ago. There was another hedge-school in Doonoroya where John Cawley now lives. In the hedge-schools, there were no chairs but in summer time the scholars sat on ditches. In winter the teacher would get the use of a house for the scholars.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mac Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tristia, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Mac Donnell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Tristia, Co. Mayo