School: Cluain na gCorp (Cloneyharp) (roll number 1706)
- Location:
- Clonyharp, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0583, Page 049
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Long ago there was a Hedge-School on the Hough road. It was below the first house on the left hand side of the road. It is easily noticed by a stone wall in the place where it was, the rest of the ditch is in grass. It was Darbey Kennedy who taught there. It was a custom for children to come a long distance to hedge-schools if they heard of a good teacher there. Darbey Kennedy must have been a good teacher because boys came from Leitrim to this hedge-school. The priests did not like strangers coming to these schools because they thought the teacher would neglect his own pupils. One day the priest came into the(continues on next page)
