School: Drumdigus (C.), Kilmurry McMahon (roll number 13479)
- Location:
- Drumdigus, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghormáin
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- Collector
- Lena Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmurry McMahon, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Mc Namara
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Derrynalecka, Co. Clare
- Before the National schools were built the school-masters used to teach their pupils at the back of the hedges on in remote mountain glens and for that reason the school-masters were known as the hedge schoolmasters. There were many of these school throughout the country in olden times. There was a hedge school in Benvoran, the teacher was Tadhg Ryan. He used to teach his pupils reading, writing, and arithmetic. There was no need for teaching them Irish as it was the spoken(continues on next page)