School: Rathdowney (B.) (roll number 15595)
- Location:
- Rathdowney, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Héigceartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0828, Page 011
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- About 150 years ago there was an old hedge school in Mrs, Dunphy's field and it is now a sandpit. Gusty Lamb was the man's name that was teaching. He was a student in France and his people were not able to pay for him and he had to come home. He used to teach in the Summer and in the winter he worked with the farmers. Every farmer had to support him with food,clothes and a little money. He taught arithmetic, Latin,Geometery, to the children. They used to write on flat stones. Every boy had to bring him two sods of turf and to pence per week.My father to to this story and he heard it from his grandfather who was 95 years when he died.
- Collector
- Donal Whelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Harristown, Co. Laois
