School: Cill an Daingin
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 413
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- After the penal laws in Ireland there were not many public school. In order that the people would be able to read and write temporary schools were established. Those schools were called hedge-school, as they were usually built in lonely valleys or woods. There is the remains of one of those hedge-schools in Ardcroney parish, our neighbouring parish.There is a glen situated about two hundred yards from Ardcroney cross, called Gleann-na-Bóna. In this lonely place a hedge-school was situated. This school existed up to seventy years ago, for many of the old people still living went to school there.Gleann-na-Bóna School was built in a sand-pit. The excavation was scooped out, so that the back wall and the two gable-ends were formed without any building. The front wall with a door and two windows were built of scraws laid along in rows. The local farmers cut sedge, in Corbally bog nearby, to roof the school. When the school was built it was opened by Mr. Smith, whose father taught in Ardcroney N.S. afterwards.When the school first started it was attended by 150 scholars. They wrote on slates. They had(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Nelly Darcy
- Gender
- Female
