School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Long ago catholics used to teach in lonely glens or behind the hedges while the children took it in their turns to watch for the approach of the English.
If the English caught the Irish caught the Irish teaching them it woud be death for them.
Still the priests and teachers did not desert the country
There was a hedge school in Whitechurch in an old churchyard there.
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- Collector
- Kitty Lahert
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Goodwinsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Denis Lahert
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Goodwinsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
