Brewer's: Hedge School

(A). A school kept in the open air, near a hedge. At one time common in Ireland.

“These irregular or `hedge schools' are tolerated only in villages where no regular school exists within a convenient distance.” —Barnard: Journal of Education, December, 1862, p. 574.

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