School: St Oran's, Buncrana

Location:
Buncrana, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán Mac Éibhir
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 284

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 284

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St Oran's, Buncrana
  2. XML Page 284
  3. XML “Old Schools”
  4. XML “Old Schools”
  5. XML “Old Schools”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    which was covered with sheeps wool. They learned latin and history and was teached how to work ships and boats on sea. They like history best of all. They had an English book but they had no Irish books. These teachers that were at the schools did not like Irish.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. There used to be a hedge school in Kingoe Buncrana and my father grandfire went to it and was teached to learn later and they were lined up in lines. At the hedge school the people wrote with lead on slates. They staid in the sheltrest field in the parish and in the best and dryest. They had a black board made of slates. Wherever they were children going the people had to pay a shillen every week to pay the teacher. The names of the some of the teachers was Eddie Doherty and he was from Antrim. Tomas Ferges and he was from Belfast and Willie Cavanagh from Tullydish, Buncrana.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.