School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)in Faurgneens, parish of Balla, another much older by a named Connolly on Cnoc Nuala, Cregg same parish. There was a good school conducted by Paddy Gallagher at Laryhill parish of Straidhe, Barony of Gallen about a mile from here. A Miss Earley taught a hedge-school at Ara, parish of Keeloguse also a mile from here.
Paddy Gallagher's School was a barn with a chimney a few yards from his own home Laryhill . His was by far the best of all the hedge-schools in the district. The young children attended school during the day and the grown ups at night. They paid weekly school fees according to their class 1d, 1/2d or 2d. The pupils brought candles and turf to the night classes. Paddy Gallagher taught both English and Irish, but the women teachers taught only English.
The women taught in their own homes. The pupils(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
