School: Melview, Longford (roll number 7518)
- Location:
- Knockawalky, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0757, Page 169
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- (continued from previous page)In the harvest, they reaped wheat and oats. with hooks, and threshed it with flails. It a farmer had not enough of men to help him, he would ask his neighbours to come to him for a few days, and he would go to them. This was called a "meitheal", which means a crowd.
When the Penal Laws were in force, teaching or hearing Mass was not allowed, but the schoolmasters taught in the hedges and ditches, and the people heard Mass in the woods. My great grand uncle, Larry Casserally was a hedge school master.
- Collector
- Kevin O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown Forbes, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Miss Igoe
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
