School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 160
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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).
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- 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
