Scoil: Baile an tSratha (uimhir rolla 17014)

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1. Old Schools

   

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   "Hedge-schools” was the name given to the schools that existed in Ireland about two hundred years ago. Sometimes houses and barns were used for such schools. These schools were generally indoors. Intelligent men taught in these schools and were mostly locals.

   The teacher’s pay was little or nothing. They got food and lodging in turn in the homes of children he taught.

   Blackboards were unknown then in those schools. The teacher did his writing on a piece of slate. In some districts where the teacher was a nate [?] he spent his life educating the young folk.

   In the townland of Ballymagroarty there was one of these schools conducted in a barn belonging to a man named Thomas Gorman, a friend of my grandfather’s.

   The teacher of this school was also a man named Gorman. He was born in Ballymagroarty about one hundred and fifty years ago. He spent his life teaching in the district.

   To this day he is spoken of by the old people who got this information from their parents.

   

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   Topaicí

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Pearl Gorman

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr James Gorman

   Gaol

   Ní fios

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal