School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Béal na mBuillí, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 161
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- The Schools during the Penal Days were very different to the schools we have nowadays. They were called Hedge Schools as they were behind the hedges, for two reasons, namely ; - the English soldiers were on their track, and behind the hedges were warmer and more sheltered than anywhere else.
The Masters were mostly all strangers as they had to move from district because if they stayed too long in one place the soldiers would catch them. The teachers lodged in the house of their pupils, staying a night or two in each house, they never got any pay, and thus, they were very poorly dressed.
The subjects taught were Irish, Sums, Latin and Greek. All the subjects possible were taught in Irish.
The children sat down in a ring with the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal na mBuillí, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Michael Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Occupation
- Carpenter
- Address
- Béal na mBuillí, Co. Ros Comáin
