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1. Hedge-Schools

   

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   There was a hedge school in a barn near Collop's Well near the Blessed Well of Tubber-Da-Annraoi and the scholars never wrote with a pencil but on some kind of slates with a long-shaped stone pencil a black-board was never used but a larger slate. They mostly learned rural science. They sat on stools and were poorly clad. The teacher's name is not known. Some English was taught there. The teacher was caught by the English soldiers as he teaching his pupils and arrested and they brought him away he was never heard of again. His little school was thrown down and his pupils were scattered.

   

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2. Hedge-Schools

   

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   There was an old hedge school in Horetown during the penal days, it was a small construction it was owned by a man named Cunningham, and given by him as a school. It consisted of nine or ten pupils. They were taught

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Sinnott

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Polldoon, Co. Wexford