School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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- We know of at least one hedge school in this district. The school is known as Companas school and the teacher is known as the "Compana". The school was where the present Dillon's Bridge school now stands. The teacher was an ancestor of my own. His name was Sheridan. He was my grand-father's grand-father. He afterwards became an National School Teacher. And his name is one of the first in the records of the board National Education. He taught from a book known as "the Redimedaisy" (or Reading made easy) Amongst other things this book contains information about the stars in a rhyme. We do not know how hard they worked in this school but one day a black cat tried to kill the masters chickens and the children spent(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Skreen, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Skreen, Co. Meath
