FROM 1750 - 1830 > GATHERING PLACES               1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40               Hedge School Poor children depended on the hedge school for their education. The teacher would receive contributions from the families of the ...     Schoolmaster Before the development of national schools, schoolmasters could either rent or build a hut which became a school-house. Most of the ...     Castlereagh School, 1805 These are the plans for the new school in Castlereagh in 1805. Money had been collected locally for the project.     Lock-Keeper’s Cottage Newry had become a very important trading centre by the second half of the 18th century. Much of its prosperity was due to the Newry ...     Glens Hotel The Glens Hotel was in the Antrim coast road close to Cushendall. It opened in 1820 and attracted many visitors who were on their way to ...     Country Inn This painting shows the scene in a late 18th century kitchen in an Irish country inn. Diners are waiting to be served and there are ...     Dancing at a fair Nearly every traveller to Ireland in the late 18th century commented on the popularity of dancing among Ireland’s rural poor. ...     Inside a public house Eighteenth century public houses were popular meeting spots for men who had sufficient money to pay for the ales and spirits on offer. ...     Mercers’ Arms Hotel The square in Kilrea was laid out in 1750. The square is dominated by the Mercers’ Arms Hotel. It was originally used as the home of the ...     Turnly’s Tower, Cushendall Turnly’s Tower is still a well known landmark in Cushendall, Co. Antrim. It was built in 1817 from red sandstone which was quarried ...     <>             1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40