School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)
- Location:
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Riain
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- (continued from previous page)Writing was with a slate pencil upon a slate. The children were arranged in rows. There was no blackboard. Instead there was a big slate. The teachers remained about a month or so in each house.
- Long ago the people were not allowed to send their children to school. They had Hedge- schools.
In this district they had a Hedge- School near Foilduff on the top of a hill. It was an outhouse owned by a man named Pat Kennedy . All the children went there. The(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Murnane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bealaclave, Co. Tipperary