Scoil: Kilbeg (uimhir rolla 11039)

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1. Old Schools

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   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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   Topaicí

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   James Galligan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Thomastown, Co. Meath