School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0081
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- of food.
While at its gates gaunt famine grimly stood,
and us who sent across the sea,
Kindest hearts in all the land,
The kin of you and me.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Pat Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- (continued from previous page)Old Schools
There was a hedge-school in Tynagh where the Shaughnessys are living at present. There was another in Gurrrane in Gohery's field.
The teacher of Gurrane hedge-school was Mr. Caulfield. When Tynagh National School was built in 1845 Mr. Caulfield was appointed teacher under the Board of Education.
The teachers who taught in the hedge-schools were called hedge-teachers. They were strangers. They travelled from place to place and remained about three months in each place. They were supported in the pupils' houses staying
