School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- There was a hedge school in Ballydaly in a house of Mr. Leavy's. The name of the teacher that used to teach in the hedge school was Mr. Mahon. He was a stranger and he came from Cork. Sometimes he used to have school in the farmer's houses. The children used to bring a penny each every day to pay the master for teaching them. The children were taught English. There was no Irish spoken or taught in the hedge schools. They used English books. They used a gooses quill to write on a slate.
Collected by Thomas Dunne (13) of Ballyteague, Daingean from father Richard (72). - There was a school at the stile of the present Kilmurray school. It was a thatched school. The boys and girls went to it. There was a house at the end of the school and two school mistresses lived in it. Their names were Miss Murphy and Miss O'Brien.They were both from Cork. This as about the year of 1835. They taught no Irish at that time. English was all that was taught in those schools. There was about 60 children going to this school. They had forms to sit on and write on.Miss Corcoran stayed in it after Miss O'Brien and Miss Murphy until this school was built in 1879.Collected by Liam Coyne (14) of Derrygrogan, Daingean, from his uncle Joseph Gorman(73) of same address.
- Collector
- Liam Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Derrygrogan Big, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Gorman
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Derrygrogan Big, Co. Offaly