School: Kilnaleck (C.)
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs. Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0994, Page 275
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- Before there was a proper system of education established hedge schools were numerous about the country. The teacher was usually a native of the district. The pupils used to write with slate pencils on stone.
One of these hedge schools was in Kill grave yard. This school was first a Catholic Church and a priest was killed in the church when saying Mass by the priest hunters. It was afterwards a hedge school. It was taught by a man named John Corr a uncle of Owen Corr Kill. Irish, arithmetic and other subjects were taught in this school. It was attended by Catholics and Protestants alike. This school was destroyed by fire when a lighted sod of turf was thrown by one of the pupils in a fight. The teacher them taught in his own barn. The ruins of the old school are still(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Peter Martin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
