School: Cill Chonaill (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Kilconnell, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0043, Page 0241
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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. - There was a hedgeschool in Monabrather. It was under a chestnut tree. One of the monks from Kilconnell Abbey used to teach in it. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays were the schooldays. He used to teach Geography and Arithmetic through Irish. He used to teach Christian Doctrine on Fridays. They used slates and chalks for writing with. The Irish books used were An Maistaire. They were taught Rafterys poems. He had about twenty pupils. He used the bark of the tree for a blackboard.
Long ago there was a hedge school in Fairfield, under a grove of trees. A man named Michael James taught in it, the subjects taught were aritmetic and poetry. The teacher used to get the slates of a house, and break a piece of the edge to write with.(continues on next page)
