School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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- (continued from previous page)possible. "Reading Made Easy" was the name of the English book. What writing was done was done with a quill pen.
The pupils were seated around the teacher and whenever a shower came they went in shelter in the hedge. The farmer used invite the teacher to the cow house. A blackboard was not used except in very rare occasions. The teacher remained nearly all his life in one district. - In olden times there was a hedge school in the townland of Droumsullivan and Coomleigh. The one in Droumsullivan was held in the house of James O Shea and he was one of the teachers who taught in these schools. His wife, a well-known and well-liked little woman was called "Máire Shéumais". She was also(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr J. O Sulliban
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Bantry, Co. Cork