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School: Lorrha (B.) (roll number 600)

Location:
Lorrha, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 049

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    Old Schools
    There are in all districts traces of old schools or hedge schools as we call them but no once seemed to have definite account of there whereabouts. There was a hedge school in Redwood bog and there was another in Curraghaglass. They were mostly in backward places or on the mountains. The school master did not teach in the same place every day because he had to teach a big area. They used stones slabs or slates for writing. Irish and history was taught and arithmetic.
    The teachers in those days were badly paid as there was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Donnchadha Ó Grógáin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Grange, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    John Lehane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ballymacegan, Co. Tipperary