School: Beanna (roll number 9524/5)
- Location:
- Banna West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cearbhaill
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- (continued from previous page)over Ireland now. The children used to be taught in old barns in the Winter and in the fields in the Summer.
The teachers were paid by the children's parents according to their valuation. It is said that the children were very well educated. Irish was taught to the children by the hedge-school-master. They used to write on slates with pencils and sometimes with writing quills.
Written by Bidsie Stack, Ballymcquinn, Ardfert, Tralee
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- Collector
- John Dowling
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinvoher, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr John Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Ballinvoher, Co. Kerry