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School: An Clochar, Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 14952)

Location:
Castleisland, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
An tSr. Caoimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0447, Page 092

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    My grandfather attended a hedge school in Baranarig, Knocknagoshel. The teacher was John O'Brien who taught about forty pupils. The school was an old thatched cabin consisting of timber seats around the four walls where the pupils sat, while the master sat in the middle of the groups in a low-backed chair. The pupils wrotes on slates with a slate pencil about a half foot long. Irish, Geography and Arithmetic were taught; but history was not heard of. The master was paid by the pupils, so much every three months according to the class the pupil was in. Three shillings was the highest he
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Curtin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Curtin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry