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School: Cluain (C.) (roll number 15443)

Location:
Cloone, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bean Uí Sholamháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 216

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    Hedge schools were very common in Ireland during the seventeenth century. It was during that period that English laws were passed, with the object of preventing any possibility of learning among the Catholics of Ireland. As nearly all the people were Catholics the English aimed at the destruction of learning in the country.
    No Catholic could be educated except in Protestant schools. No Catholic could teach school, or people could not send their children abroad to be educated. If Catholic children were sent abroad to be educated their parents would
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Keegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Curraun, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    John Keegan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Curraun, Co. Leitrim