School: Collon (roll number 14579)

Location:: Collon, Co. Louth
Teacher:: Bean Uí Mhathúna

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Sometimes the scholars sat around him on the floor, and sometimes on small three-legged stools.
The scholars wrote in a bold upright fasion and wrote with pens made from goos-quills and the ink was made from elder berries.
He taught French and Greek and Irish to the children.

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“The following are the hedge-schools which were formerly in this district at Balrenny, Slane, Co. Meath, there was a school, a small thatched hut and partitioned of this was a forge.”

The following are the hedge-schools which were formerly in this district at Balrenny, Slane, Co. Meath, there was a school, a small thatched hut and partitioned off this was a forge. They are now in the possession of Peter Boyle, Grangegeeth. The teacher's name was Owen Farrelly, a local man. Spelling is what he mostly taught and then each child had a sheet of paper on which he gave them

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