School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Charleville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Riabhach
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- Old Schools.
About one-hundred and fifty years ago the Irish people could not practice their religion. Catholic Schools were done away with, and boys or girls could not go to school except to a Protestant school. Priests were killed in great numbers and Churches and houses were burned to the ground.
Just a few miles to the South of Charleville at that time lived a young man named Harry Burke. He was a very good scholar. He had compassion on the little children who could not even bless themselves. He therefore made up his mind to try and teach them something.
He began(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Hynes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Charleville, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Charleville, Co. Cork