School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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- (continued from previous page)the Catholics were not allowed to send their children to foreign schools, but they were allowed to send them to Protestant schools.
Although the Irish were tired out with trouble they would not agree to this. They paid a little money to Masters to educate their children under hedges.
This is a story my father told me about a hedge school in my district. About a hundred years ago there was a hedge-school about a half-mile to the north of my dwelling. It was under a hedge in a field called Gilmartin's.
The children came from far and near to it, but it shows how they appreciated learning. There were two masters teaching in it named Peter Taheny and Patrick Quinn. Taheny was from Ballygawley he was about forty-six old and Quinn was from Castledargen he was about fifty-three years old. They are both dead now.- Collector
- Nora Taheny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castledargan, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Taheny
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65