1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Drom Dhá Liag (B.)

School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)

Location:
Drom Dhá Liag, Co. Chorcaí
Teacher:
Domhnall Ó Ciardha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 109

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 109

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.)
  2. XML Page 109
  3. XML “Place Names”
  4. XML “Hedge-Schools”

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

  1. Place Names (continued)

    Share Share Post
    You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.
    (continued from previous page)
    Cancel
    Transcription guide »
    By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.

  2. Hedge-Schools

    Share Share Post
    In the penal days the teachers were forbidden to have schools or to teach the children. If they were caught teaching they would be sinserely punished or put to death. Therefore they used be teaching by the hedges and lonely places.
    The Schools were then called hedge-schools. They were mostly built of sods. In the summer time they usen't have any school-house only teaching in the open air. The school-master then was called the hedge-school-master.
    There was a hedge-school to the south of Drimoleague about a mile and
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit