School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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- Hedge schools were very common about a hundred years ago.
Terence Travers who lived in the parish of Inishmagrath, Co. Leitrim was one who taught in a hedge school and some times in his own house.
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