School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: T. Healy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 106
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballinvally (B.)
- XML Page 106
- XML “Old 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
- There was once a school in this district. It was called by the local people a hedge school. The school was on the Killadoran road just at (moort) Moortown Cross. The teacher used to teach the pupils in a haggard beside a hay-rick. On a wet day he would bring them into a barn that was nearby. The (names) names of the man who used to teach was Matthew Carberry and the field where he used to teach is now called "Carberry's Acre". He was a local person. He was paid very small for his instruction but when he would teach in a wealthy mans house he would get a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Harry Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lakill and Moortown, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- John Barry
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lakill and Moortown, Co. na hIarmhí
