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School: Mathghamhnach (C.) (roll number 11423)

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Mahoonagh, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bríd Nic Arailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0489, Page 152

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    He wrote some fine books. People of the locality used to go to his father's school. They had no copies in those times like we have now, but used slates and slate pencils. The most important subjects were Reading Writing and Arithmetic. There was no Irish taught in those hedge schools. I know a man by the name of Michael Hennessy a near neighbour who went to the hedge school at Clouncagh. He is about the age of seventy-five years.
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Mulcahy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Teermena, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    John Mulcahy
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Teermena, Co. Limerick