School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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- There was no hedge schools in Laughta but there was one in Derrymore and one in Tully. The teachers used teach indoors. There was a master named Gibbons and he used teach. They were not strangers. He was from Coillmór. Every farmers house that hadn't a barn they used teach in the houses. The teacher used lodge in the houses for a fortnight and when he would have gone as far as Derrymore he would return to Loughta again. The teaches used not speak Irish to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Raghallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Laghta Oughter, Co. Mayo
