School: Tullaroan (C.) (roll number 3530)
- Location:
- Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Eidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 182
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- Hedge schools were to be found throughout the country up to a hundred years ago.
Scholars travelled from all parts to the cabin when the school was open during the winter, the early spring and the summer. As soon as the seasons for sewing or reaping arrived the scholars used to go home to work on their father's farm.
In those school the scholars were taught to write in a very old fashioned style. They made their own ink from the juice of the elderberrries and made their own pens from goose quills. The teachers that used to be teaching in those schools used to lodge in the farmers houses. The ruins of these old schools are yet to be seen.
- Collector
- Lizzie Dooley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountgale, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Dooley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountgale, Co. Kilkenny
