School: Windgap (C.), Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 281
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- (continued from previous page)them Irish, but he taught them writing. They did their writing on slates and chalks and they had to pay the master a few pence every week.
Where the hedge school masters taught was at the side of a hedge where they would have shelter and where they would not be seen. They had no houses but they lodged at the farmers houses.
Many years after the hedge school masters the school teachers used to go from house to house teaching the children. There was a man living in Windgap by the name of Mr. O'Callaghan. I heard my father saying that he was here for a while teaching him.
- Collector
- Mai Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
