School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)
- Location:
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)teachers were paid by the people. Sometimes a teacher went around from house to house in the nights. They taught Irish in those schools. The Pupils had no books or pencils but they used slates and slate pencils instead. They had stools on which they were seated in the school. They had no blackbord. Sometimes they were found out and were hunted out of the place. All the schools were thatched that time.
- In days gone by there were no schools in the country, and the teachers taught the children in the open. The places where they were taught were called hedge-schools.
Before Mass was even said in Tour Church school was carried(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nellie O Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
