School: Tisrara (C.) (roll number 14930)
- Location:
- Four Roads, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 405
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tisrara (C.)
- XML Page 405
- XML “Old 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 were several hedge school in our district long ago. Hedge-schools were the name for them. There was one in Tibarney, held in a barn. John Connolly was the name of the teacher. There was another hedge school in Lisduff. The name of the teacher was Paddy Murphy. They were natives of the district.
They were paid by the scholars with meat and potatoes. They were taught reading, writing arithmetic, and Irish.
- Collector
- Nan Finerty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolderry, Co. Roscommon
