Prizon School

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.

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

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

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

Predict the weather using these tips from Michael Kennedy

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”.

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.

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.

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

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