School: Cluain na gCorp (Cloneyharp) (roll number 1706)
- Location:
- Clonyharp, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chinnéide
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- 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)