School: Rathdowney (B.) (roll number 15595)
- Location:
- Ráth Domhnaigh, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: P. Ó Héigceartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0828, Page 004
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- A long time ago there was an old hedge school on the east end of Rathdowney where Mr Dunphy's sand pit now stands. Mrs Leahy told me that her grandfather went to the school and the man's name that taught it was Gurstry Lamb.
The children that were going to that school used to sit around their master on stones and do their writing on the ground with a stick. This school was only held in the summer and in winter he used to work for the farmers in the day and teach his children at night and they gave him very little only his food, clothes and very little money.
They about 90 years ago they built a National School where the b Y U S hall is now and the boys used to be taught on the bottom floor and the girls on the top.
Then in 1902 they built a school on the western end(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Domhnaigh, Co. Laoise
- Informant
- Mrs Leahy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 80
- Address
- Ráth Domhnaigh, Co. Laoise
