School: Collinstown
- Location:
- Collinstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0722, Page 195
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- Situated south of Matty Gilavan's house stood the old hedge school about a hundred years ago. The teacher was called Barney Kelly. He was about fifty years of age and he was a tall thin man. Any word he was not able to pronounce he said to the child " Skip that my child, that is a town in France that you or I never will see". To the school there was about thirty pupils going and he taught them reading, writing, arithmetic, and Poetry.
- Collector
- Bríghid Ní Gibní
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilpatrick, Co. Westmeath
