School: Manulla (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bairéad
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- There was a hedge school in Manulla over a hundred years ago. It was situated where John Connor's house now stands. John Ellicott taught there and he has a grand nephew still living in Burris - a village near Manulla. The Poor Scholar's people came from Newport but they are all dead now.
The subjects taught there were - reading, writing and spellings and sometimes sums. The fees were paid weekly and the scholars had to bring a bag of turf every month. The school itself was an old thatched barn and many a time it used to be so full of water that the scholars had to climb up to the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Teresa Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Manulla, Co. Mayo