School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 051
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- When the Irish people were denied the right to educate their children, by the people who were crushing them by the Penal Laws, the fire of learning and knowledge was kept burning by the heroic schoolmasters, who under the hedges and on the mountains, imparted to their little bands of scholars, the knowledge which they themselves had gleaned on the continent of Europe.About two miles away from the school there was one of three hedge schools taught by Master Garland. There was a small hut there opposite Paddy Lynagh's house, and into that little house under the hedge, doorless, windlowless, fireless and almost roofless, thirty children came every morning. Without fail every scholar hied his way, each morning, with his few books, his slate and pencil under his arm, to the little school to taste the fruit of the tree of forbidden knowledge. There are two old people still living, who attended the hedge school; Bridget Lynagh.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Scott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
