School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)
- Location:
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 13
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - May Carberry collected this information about an old Hedge School in her district of Tullyhurk. She heard about it from Mr. Charlie Cassidy, Parkhill, Ballyshannon. The school was held in what is now known as John Gallagher’s garden, beside May’s own house.
The teacher’s name was Mr. Carney. He had a small farm of land which now belongs to Mr. Bertie Crawford, Tullyhurk. He was a native of this district. She thinks he got no pay and he went home with a different scholar every night. The children were seated on stones and logs which each one brought. They wrote on stones or anything they could get and they wrote with the shanks of clay pipes and such things. They gathered a(continues on next page)
