School: Naomh Seosamh, Baile an Ruadháin (roll number 15829)
- Location:
- Ballinrooaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mrs Nora Lally
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 255
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- Hedge Schools
There were no schools at that time. School-masters wandered through the country and taught the scholars under the shade of the hedges.
St. Kieran built a church in Cloonkeen Abbert. There is a grave yard around this ruin in which people are buried. This little cemetery lights up on the night before a person of the neighbourhood dies. The blaze may be seen for miles around.
Cloonkeen - Kerrel in Gurteen. St. Kerrel established a monastery there. He quarrelled with another St. who said that he would have a dead body there every Monday morning. Ever since that, there is a dead thrush every Monday in Cloonkeen Kerrel cemetery.On St. Bernard's(continues on next page)
