School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)
- Location:
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Conghaile
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About ninety years ago there was a hedge school in the village of Killasolan below Caltra. The school was held in a disused lime - kiln.
The teacher did not allow the pupils to speak Irish and they were punished by him if they were heard using any word of it. There was a little piece of a stick tied on a string and hung around each child's neck. If the parents heard the child using any Irish words they would make a nick in the stick and the teacher gave the child a slap for each nick.
The books were all in English and the children wrote on a slate with slate - pencils and on copies with quills. The teacher's name was Kelly. He was a stranger because at that time young men educated themselves and went through the country teaching in hedge - schools. He was paid by the parents of the children who attended his school which lasted for some time in the district.
Thomas Cahill
Lisnascreena
- Informant
- Thomas Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnascreena, Co. Galway
