School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- (continued from previous page)Keane, who uses it as a barn. This school was roofed with green sods and the pupils sat on stones and sheaves of straw. They wrote with a quill. The man who taught in this school was one Mr. Beirne, and his usual fare was a penny a day. Those who did not give that kept for the night on their turns.
- The remains of an ancient hedge-school are still to be seen in the townland of Killarga near the town of Drumahair. This hedge-school is surrounded by a fort.
It consists of a large stone about eight yards long and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Noone
- Gender
- Female