Hedge-School

12th May 1938


There was a hedge school in Michael Brady's land in the village of Rushill in the parish of Balla, Co. Mayo.
This hedge school was held under a hedge.
I do not know what the master's name was.
They spoke English as well as they knew it.
The master had no desire for the Irish. The children wrote on slates.
They would be punished if they spoke a word of Irish.

 

“INFORMANT: Michael Kennedy, Age 48 Rush Hill, Co. Mayo”
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More stories on Hedge schools
Hedge-School
Hedge-School

There was a hedge school in Michael Brady's land in the village of Rushill in the parish of Balla, Co. Mayo.

INFORMANT: Michael Kennedy, Age 48 Rush Hill, Co. Mayo

Hedge-School
Hedge-School

Hedge schools once exist in Ireland up to the 1850's. They shorthly closed after a national education system came into existence. Here are a few stories from locals from back in 1938 given their accounts of Hedge Schools.

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