Long ago, school in Ireland was centred around monastic settlements. Howerver, like the church, the school system was destroyed during the 1600's. Forbidden to have their own schools, the Irish were forced to create what became known as the "hedge school system". The Irish children would meet in a field, behind a hedge where the teacher would conduct class in defiance of the English authorities.

Constantly uprising, the Gaelic speaking Irish ambushed and pillaged the foreign soldiers. Finally, in the 1700's King Charles 1, in an effort to end the fighting and teach the English way in Ireland, built these model schoolhouses. For this reason the school became, and in many parts of the country still are, part of the renewed Irish education system.