School: Inis Mac ón Tír (roll number 12854)
- Location:
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Muireann Bean Uí Chuinneagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 107
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Inis Mac ón Tír
- XML Page 107
- XML “Seanscoileanna”
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
- Before National schools were established in Ireland there were schools known as hedge schools.They were generally held in farmers' houses, where there were children. In fine weather classes were held in the open in the sheltered fields hence the name "hedge-schools".There are some of the old people in this village who remember those schools and the teachers who taught in them. The names of the following teachers are mentioned as having taught in this locality:-Patrick O Malley - A native of Connemara (Clifden)
Mr Stewart - A native of Clonbur
Mr McOrmack - A native of Cong
Mr Clarke - A native of Connemara
Mr Bousdow - A native of The Neale (ex soldier surveyor nephew of Crompton
Mr Crampton - A native of The Neale
Mr J. McDonagh - A native of Glann, Oughterard
Mr Anthony Flynn - A native of Nephin
Mr M. Noone - Buried in Ballinacholla
Mr J. Frehan - Shrule
Mr J. Quale - ConnemaraThese teachers taught English, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Faherty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. Galway
