School: Ballyvaldon (roll number 10792)
- Location:
- Ballyvaldon, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 260
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- (continued from previous page)and the better off paid quarterly + what they paid Mr Belvin was not able to tell.The Masters house adjoined the school also the masters property. Here the instruction was in winter. The scholars gathered "brosna" and there was also some coal - no turf.
The exact site of the school is well known.There were Hedge Schools at Crosshue, Ballyvooloo, Crois du Ruadh (in Blackwater Parish)
The latter two were conducted by Kirwan + Wm. O'Neill respectively
There is no mention of Irish being taught.
- Mr Belvin says that in the year of the "big snow 1808" the people cut their way to the nearest potato pits + the pit for the time was common property. (In this district the potatoes are "pitted" at digging time)
He also mentions that people of different townlands dug their way till they met gang working in opposite directions
He thinks the snow fell about 6th Jan. The Big Wind of 1839 stripped many roofs completely in this districts - Informant
- John Belvin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Ballyvaldon, Co. Wexford
