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School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)

Location:
Ballindine, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire de Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 477

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    Long ago the people had not any schools to go to as the people have now.
    A young man named John Duggan started a hedge-school in Ballyglass and people came from all around the place to learn. Irish, Latin, and French were the subjects taught. They used bring sods of turf with them to sit on. With slate pencils they used write and it was on their knees they used leave the slates.
    Often they had their slates tied around their necks, and for every word of Irish spoken there was a mark put on the slate. Then at the end of every month they sued be scourged with the cat-o-nine tales.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Joyce
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    William Mangan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 86
    Address
    Scardaun, Co. Mayo