School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Derryvoney
- XML Page 073
- XML “Hedge-Schools”
- XML “Hedge-Schools”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There was an old hedge school in our garden. He was a master that taught the children. His name was Mc. Gilligan. They children always wrote with quills. The books were handwritten. The teacher only had ten shillings a week and they did not stay long in the District they would only stay about a month each. At night the teacher would stay in some house.
- There is a hedge school in Quivy. There came a master from Belturbet named Kennedy. They had no pens and they used to write with quills. They had only ten shillings(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christena O Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Foalies, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr W. Fimmon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clowninny, Co. Cavan