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School: Kiltoghert (roll number 14760)

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Kiltoghert, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Fearghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 548

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    There was a hedge school at Costrea in a granary. The teachers who taught in these schools were never in college and they got no government pay. Nearly every day the children brought a penny each The people who taught lived in the locality. At this time they had no pens and they wrote with quills and they wrote on slates with the shanks of clay pipes. They sat on straw on the ground and wrote on slabs of stone.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tessie Farrell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kiltoghert, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Michael Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Gowel, Co. Leitrim