page_title: Hedge school
hierarchical_section_title: Hedge school
caption_attribution_description: English: Curraghaleen hedge school. A hedge school is a school set up in 19th century rural Ireland, usually by a local man giving oral teaching in the area. The name suggests an outdoor school, but often they were in barns such as this one that has been preserved. For more information see Hedge_school and for its context see 963520
context_page_description: Hedge schools were small informal illegal schools, particularly in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland, designed to secretly provide the rudiments of primary education to children of 'non-conforming' faiths. Under the penal laws only schools for those of the Anglican faith were allowed. Instead Catholics and Presbyterians set up highly informal secret operations that met in private homes.
context_section_description: Hedge schools (Irish names include  scoil chois claí, scoil ghairid and scoil scairte) were small informal illegal schools, particularly in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland, designed to secretly provide the rudiments of primary education to children of 'non-conforming' faiths (Catholic and Presbyterian). Under the penal laws only schools for those of the Anglican faith were allowed. Instead Catholics and Presbyterians set up highly informal secret operations that met in private homes.
caption: Former hedge school building in Curraghaleen, County Roscommon
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