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School: Béal Trágha

Location:
Carrowreagh or Craignacally, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eibhlín Nic Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1121, Page 376

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    The scholars paid this school master one shilling and two pence per quarter. He got no money from the government. Some of these masters were very learned and could talk and write in Latin and Greek. Irish was the daily speech spoken in the parish of Clonmany and no English was taught at the hedge school.
    There were no lead pencils or exercise books as now but instead the used slaits and slate pencils. The school masters boarded in neighbouring houses and sometimes in hiding as there was a price on his head.

    I got this material from
    Edward Toland
    Ballindaroe
    Isle of Doagh.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Edward Toland
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doagh Isle, Co. Donegal