School: Crury (roll number 3134)
- Location:
- Creevy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Martin Keegan
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- Long ago the only means of education the Irish peasantry had was what they were taught at the local hedgeschools by the masters.
Around this district the hedge school was in Kilbarron in a field owned by a man named James Mc Intyre. To this place or school flocked all the pulils for miles around. The teacher was a former scholar named Jum Gildaw. In this school the pupils sat on stools around a small fire the master also sat on a stool and taught the pupils from a spelling book of which there was only one. He taught them to write on a slate on which he wrote with a charred stick. The master was lodged and supported by the parents of the pupils every night he went to d different family and spent time there. This little house or school consisted of one room. There was a little window on the sidewall with one glass pane in it. There was no chimney but the master or pupils lit a fire in the middle of the floor and the smoke went out on the door. The floor was earthen and the roof was thatched with rushes [?]. This hedgeschool was attended by grown up boys and girls as well as by the children. As well as teaching, spellings and writing to his pupils the master also(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Mc Intyre
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloghbolie, Co. Donegal