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Hedge Schools in Horeswood

 

Parish 

Townland

Master/Mistress

Religion of Master or Mistress

Free or Pay School

Total annual income of Teacher

Description of school and its cost

Protestants

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Ballybrazil

Ballybrazil

Gregory Laffan

R.C.

Pay

£5

-held in a cow shed without a window. Cost:£4

_

40

24

16

Dunbrody

Ballyvelig

Thomas Cullen

R.C.

Pay

£18-10s

-a borrowed store house

_

175

113

62

Killesk

Killesk

Patrick Ronan

R.C.

Pay

£15

-a poor cabin. Cost :£5

_

80

60

20

Kilmokea

Fisherstown

Patrick Burgess

R.C.

Pay

£25

-stone and clay. Cost :£5

5

80

58

22

Kilmokea

Horeswood (Horestown)

Thomas Finn

R.C.

Pay

£25

-mud and stone. Cost: £7

_

87

47

40

Kilmokea

Priesthaggard

James Harris

R.C.

Pay

£25

-stone and clay. thatched Cost :£5

1

55

36

19

Whitechurch

Whitechurch

Hilary Webb

Mary Webb

Protestant

Pay

£3 and 1/1 to 1/8 per quarter from pupils

-a thatched stone house stands on the Glebe land and kept in repair by the Parish.Cost:about £10

6

19

18

7

Whitechurch

Stokestown

Morton Fitzgerald

Honora Fitzgerald

 

Protestant

Protestant

Pay

The interest of £1,600 bequeathed by Mrs. Paul and 1s a month by children

-a very good slated house. Cost : £500

10

30

28

12

Whitechurch

Oldcourt

Martin O’Hanlon

R.C

Pay

£25

-a thatched cabin . Cost  :£5

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116

96

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