School: Scoil na mBráthar, Portlaoighse
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br. Frampton
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0834, Page 288
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- There was a hedge school in Ballydavis in an old lane. A man named Foynes taught in it. During the day he taught on a heap of sand. He made the letters and figures in the sand with scallop. At night he taught in his own house and had a black board with a clap pipe and chalk, Then in the Aitumn his pupils paid him with turf and corn. He taught them every-thing in Irish and so made fine-scholars of them when the people were not allowed to have a school.
- Collector
- John Keyes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydavis, Co. Laois
