1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cartrún

School: Cartrún

Location:
Cartronavally, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Cáit, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 280

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 280

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cartrún
  2. XML Page 280
  3. XML “Hedge-Schools in My District in Former Times”

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

  1. Hedge-Schools in My District in Former Times

    Share Share Post
    280
    Hedge Schools in my district in former times.
    After the Famine years the Irish pedantry completed their education in what is known as "Hedge Schools." I may, assert that there stands the ruins of an old "Hedge School" about quarter of a mile distant from this school in a glen known as. "Poll na h-alrona"???These schools as they may be called received their name from the green side on the sunny side of a quick set hedge in which the pedagogue or schoolmaster carried on the work
    (continues on next page)
    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
    John Guihen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cartronavally, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Patrick Rynn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Cornagee, Co. Roscommon