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School: Cross (roll number 13141)

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Cross South, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mártan Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 146

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    About eighty years ago there was a hedge school in my district. It was held in a thatched barn some two hundred yards from my house in the village of Doon. The house belonged to James Deignan.
    One teacher taught in it whose name was Edward Lee. He was not a stranger at all, he belonged to the locality. He lived with his father about three hundred yards from where he taught. Every month he got on an average thirty shillings from his pupils, but he got no salary from the Government.
    The subjects taught were English, a little Irish and Arithmetic. Very little Irish was taught. English was the principal subject in the school.
    Arithmetic was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joe Giblin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 13
    Address
    Doon, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mick Giblin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 65
    Address
    Doon, Co. Sligo