School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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Long ago there were hedge schools in Ireland. The teacher and the children arranged a dry spot behind a thick hedge or in a wood. The teacher used to teach his pupils all the day. They used to sit on stone's, and on the grass.
Every Monday morning each pupil had to bring a penny for the teacher's weekly pay and in Winter they had to bring a sod of turf each morning to the school.
They had no blackboard only slates.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joseph Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- James Canavan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 34
- Address
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon