School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile

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   Those Penal laws affected their religion, land, education and all rights.
   The people could not send their children to Catholic schools because they were not allowed to be opened. The law was to send the children to Protestant schools or not send them to any school.
   This continued for some time and although the Irish were very keen on learning, they did not like to send their children to Protestant schools.
   At last some people thought of teaching schools by the hedges and ditches and in lonely places. An old man named Michael Tiernan of my district told me he heard there was one in Ballymote situated a little distance outside the town about two miles north of it in a little wood. The master was Charles Cawley a native of Ballymote, he is now dead. The hedge schools began at about eleven o'clock in the Summer and ended at four or five o'clock in the evening and in the Winter the began at ten and ended at three o'clock in the evening. The children used to pay the master a penny each week to get taught.

   

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Crissie Mc Donagh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knockbeg East, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Francis Mc Donagh

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56