School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)

Location:
Robertstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
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  1. In olden times there were no National Schools and the only means of Education the people had was what they called hedge school masters. These men usually went around from place to place teaching in farmers’ houses and sometimes in barns and stables. Their pay was very small, some times only 2/0 a week - just what ever the poor children could afford. In Kilbeg parish there were four hedge school - masters that I know of. One was at Staholmog where a man named Marty Clarke taught. He was also a good poet. Like his fellow teachers of those times he was very poor, and could not afford to dress himself very well on his small pay. One time that he was in want of a coat he was teaching in a rich man’s house where he saw many coats hung up on the wall. This is how he asked for one :- “Is wrote in scripture,
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Galligan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Thomastown, Co. Meath