School: Mohill (B.) (roll number 12415)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Francis Flynn
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- Hedge Schools.There was a hedge school situated about a quarter of a mile from my house. It last went out of action about seventy years ago. It was called Towneymore hedge school. There are out-houses built where the school stood, but the play ground is there still. The school was about 20 ft x 15 ft in size. There were about thirty pupils attending it, and they were always taught indoor. The master's name was Canning and he was a native of Towneymore. There was a night school carried on in a farmer's house in Derreen, and the master's name was Geelan. The pupils attending the day school paid the master a few shillings each quarter. Each one brought a sod or two of turf every morning. They were not taught many subjects, only Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. They were forbidden to speak Irish(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Beirne
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Michael Kilrane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Leitrim
