School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 238
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- (continued from previous page)parish of Drom, Co. Tipperary. Hedge schools were plentiful and therefore no school was carried on in the farmers' houses. The parents sent money every quarter to the teacher. In this way he was paid. Catechism, English, Grammar and Arithmetic were the chief subjects taught there. The teacher did not teach Irish. The books used were a grammar, a catechism, an arithmetic and an English book. A book was used between every four slates and slate-pencils were used for writing. A large piece of wood painted black was used as a blackboard. In wintertime a fire was made in a hollow in the ground. The smoke went out through a hole in the roof.
- There was a hedge-school at Barna cross in a field of William Maher who is dwelling in the townsland of Knocka, in the parish of Drom, in the Co. Tipperary. The people did not call this school a hedge-school, but a night school because it was at night it was held. It(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edward Kirwan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Richard Stapleton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockagh, Co. Tipperary
