School: Newtownforbes (B.) (roll number 6612)
- Location:
- An Lios Breac, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: F. Mac Énrí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0757, Page 057
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- In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were no such things as national schools as there are now but there were such things as hedge schools. That is school out in the field or along the hedges.
A hedge master as he was called gathered a crowd of pupils around him in a field and he taught them for a day and then he would go to another place of the country and do the same thing.
The hedge masters lodged in a farmer's house. These hedge masters were very good teachers and they had very good scholars. I was not able to get any of the names of these hedge masters. Very often these hedge masters had night classes in a farmer's house.
The hedge masters taught grammar, Spellings and the Irish language. The scholars were good writers and they had all a flourishing hand.
- Collector
- Michael Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamhach, Co. an Longfoirt
