Prizon School

Prison school is a small school which once existed in a place called Balla in Co. Mayo. Once part of the town of Manulla is situated in a townland called Prison East. The school was opened around the mid 1800’s

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Prizon school Reunion 2014

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Prizon School

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School Days

On arriving at the school there was a great welcome for me, and I was introduced to all the children. The teacher directed me to my own desk. I then told her I learned a poem about her, she was so pleased and said, stand up then a tell the class.

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Marriages

My mother got married on the 4th March 1923 to Michael Kennedy of Rushhill in the parish of Balla. INFORMANT: Michael Kennedy, Age 48, Rush Hill, Co. Mayo

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Local Marriage Customs

In my Grandmothers and Grandfathers time the people were very plain and simple. They walked to church to be married. INFORMANT: Martin Corcoran, Age; 35, Prizon, Balla, Co. Mayo

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Story of an Old Cow

There was a field in which she was very fond of resting. It is called Cow-park ever since. INFORMANT: Martin Corcoran, Age; 35, Prizon, Balla, Co. Mayo

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(via #OTD in 1856 – Birth of athlete, Patrick Nally, in Balla, Co Mayo.)

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An old Cow >

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Weather-Lore

Predict the weather using these tips from Michael Kennedy

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Treasured Memories of Prison School

There were stories about the “Bean Si” (“Banshee”) and the “Cóiste Bodhar” (“Death Coach”). Dick Brady would bring up his experiences with Ghosts, and he would end with “There isn’t a word of lie in it”.

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Memories

If I had to live my childhood over again, I wouldn’t want to change a single bit of it, they really were very happy times.

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History

From hedge school to national school. The national education system was set up under British rule in 1850, through the commissioners of education to the department of education under the formation of the Irish state. This is the story Prizon school's opening to its closure.

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Local Heroes

I got no account of a hero but the following scraps of information about some notorious persons may be of some use. Denis Browne of Claremorris and high sheriff of Mayo towards the end of 18th century and Captain George Robert Fitzgerald of Turlough, Castlebar were looked upon as the two worst men t

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St. Patricks day

On St. Patrick's day all the girls wear blue ribbons and the boys gather sham-rock for their jackets.

Stories from Dúchas.ie

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Prison school is a small school which once existed in a place called Balla in Co. Mayo. Once part of the town of Manulla is situated in a townland called Prison East. The school was opened around the mid 1800’s

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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. Source-Dúchas.ie

There were 3 hedge schools, two in Balla and one Rosslee, along with 3 day schools in Minolla (Manulla). The 3 hedge schools are shown to be in decline in attendance by 1836. But there were two, Day Schools which had opened in Minola in 1834. One of which had taught grammar as well as protestant and catholic catechism while the other taught only catholic catechism. The other subjects taught at these schools were: Reading Writing and Arithmetic. No area in Manulla, name of school, or roll book numbers were given to these schools, so no link can be made directly to Prizon school.