1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. St Columkille's, Aughnacliffe

School: St Columkille's, Aughnacliffe (roll number 14220)

Location:
Aghnacliff, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Eoghan Mac Aodha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 087

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 087

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St Columkille's, Aughnacliffe
  2. XML Page 087
  3. XML “Hedge-Schools”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Hedge-Schools (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    a boy to his house and get lodgings for the night. He would get his breakfast and other meals on that house and this is how he was paid. For his lunch he got potatoes and salt.
    On Monday each child gave a penny as pay for the week for the teacher. The headlines were "sean focal" or wise sayings one being "Demand nothing contrary to reason for potatoes and herrings are good in the season". This was considered a "good" school as others were situated at the back of a hedge. All the people of the neighbouring townlands attended this school. There are many people living who attended this school about sixty years ago.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Smear, Co. Longford
    Informant
    John Quinn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Smear, Co. Longford