School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- I have heard very little about Hedge schoolmasters, but I have heard they have been in secret places all over Ireland, sometimes in an old barn and in cow-houses, farm-houses and under sheltery places in hedges.
It is from being under hedges they derived the name. My great grand Uncle taught school at a sheltered hedge in Co. Sligo in the townland of St. James' Well. He was a native of Co. Roscommon, but he had to leave it on account of spies.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Seamus Rogers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs Rogers
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 46
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wicklow