School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)Writing. They had no seats and they had to sit on big stones.
- There was a hedge school in this district one time. The local name for it was a hedge school. It was in a house in a field in Moylroe. The name of the man that owns the field that it was in is Robert Smyth. The name of the man that taught in it was Master White. He was not a stranger his father was from Moylroe. The pupils used to bring him sixpence a week to pay him. They wrote with pencils on slates. The subjects that were taught in it were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Devereux
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Devereux
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
