School: Cill Díoma (C.) (roll number 6517)
- Location:
- Kildimo, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eilís Ní Chathail
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- I was told that there was a hedge school in Conrane on a hill called "Clann Gaimne" and the name of the Schoolmaster was Mr Canny
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- Bridget O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
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- Thomas Stokes
- Gender
- Male
- A hedge school was situated some where around Maurice ORourkes house in Old Kildimo.
Nobody knows exactly who taught in this school but it is said that it was either a man named Mr Shanahan or Mr Sheehan.
The children that attended this school wrote with slate pencils on slates. The teacher taught Irish, Latin, Arithmetic, Writing, Reading, and Greek in this school. If any of the scholars missed their lessons another scholar put the scholar that missed their lessons, up on their back and then the teacher would flog them.
Many of those scholars became clever and they went to foreign countries to teach.
