School: Millín, Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 16329)
- Location:
- Milleenduff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Diolún
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 014
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- (continued from previous page)There were no maps, or no blackboards in those hedge-schools in the olden-times. There were different kinds of books in those hedge-schools. The scholars used to have their pencils, and pens. The pens that they used to have were made out of goose-quills. Each scholar used to carry his own bottle of ink, tied in the button hole of his waist-coat. Each scholar used to carry a slate and a pen made from a goose quill.
When the master would go into the school he used to strike the wall with a stick, and he would say to the scholars, "Rehearse and make noise." The more noise they would make, the people would hear them when they would be passing by. Then the people would think that they were great scholars. The school master used to stay at the farmers houses for a few nights. The hedge-school masters used to get but very little pay. They used to be(continues on next page)
