Scoil: Fearann Ruaidhrí, Ballingarry, Thurles (uimhir rolla 11267)
- Suíomh:
- Farranrory Lower, Co. Tipperary
- Múinteoir: Máighréad Breathnach
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- Hedge Schools
By the penal laws no Catholic could teach school, or teach in private houses.
After that upset the enormous challenge to their oppressors was found by the people in the hedge schools, and while the law did its best to reduce our ancestors to unlettered savages, the teacher and his pupils met under the shelter of a hedge, or in some miserable little cabin without even a chair to sit on, but a big piece of rock.
The pupils were only two happy to embrace the opportunity to learn under any circumstances.
Long ago hedge-schools existed in my district very near my home in Lower Farranrory There were two strange teachers in the,. They taught English, Irish, reading, and Arithmetic, out in the open.
There was a very big crowd of pupils going to them then.(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)