hedge-school

Irish history a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter

Derived forms of hedge-school

hedge-schoolmaster, noun

The hedge-school in its most elemental state was an open-air daily assemblage of youths in pursuit of knowledge.

The Glories of Ireland |Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox
"You talk with contempt of a hedge-school," replied the other master.

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh |William Carleton
These Hibernian novels, too, are evidently intended for the Hedge-School universities.

The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh: The Irish Sketch Book |William Makepeace Thackeray
In my own case, its first development was noticed in the hedge-school which I attended.

The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim |William Carleton

Look at that B, and that G; their formae formativae never were begotten in a hedge-school.

Westward Ho! |Charles Kingsley