School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- XML Page 106
- XML “Hedge-Schools”
- XML “Hedge-Schools”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- John James Doherty of Annaghearley, Kilclare told me that there was a hedge school in this district. This school was originally a very old house and was built near the roadside at Kilclare, Gowel, Co. Leitrim. A stranger whose name was Mr. Tricker taught there. He went from house to house for lodgings. The subjects taught there were reading, writing and arithmetic. It is supposed to be the same house which was since rebuilt and it now used as a byre.
- There is a hedge school about a mile from my house which is situated in Leitrim(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Armstrong
- Gender
- Female