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School: Cill Iubhair (roll number 10095)

Location:
Killure Beg, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Ceithearnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0024

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    Old Schools
    About two hundred and fifty years ago our ancestors were taught in hedge schools because there were no national schools erected at that time. The law did its best to let our ancestors grow up in ignorance and that is the reason why the people erected hedge schools. There was one erected Killure in the land of Stephen Donnelley. The teacher of the hedge school was Thomas Burns. The teacher and his pupils used to meet under the shelter of a hedge or in some miserable little cabin without even a chair to sit on or any desk to leave their copies on but a piece of rock. At that time there were
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Evelyn Costello
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killure Beg, Co. Galway
    Informant
    William Costello
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killure Beg, Co. Galway