School: Cloigne
- Location:
- Clegna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Fhloinn
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- The only old school I ever heard of in this locality was at the foot of the Hill on which Kilellan Graveyard is. It flourished there about one hundred years ago. There was only one teacher in it named Matthew Regan. He was a very good teacher. The only subjects he taught were the three Rs, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. He also taught another subject, Grammar. Some old people say that he was a very hard teacher that he used to horsewhip the children. He used to stay in the children's houses because he had no home of his own. The only pay he got was his bed and support and very little money.
I will just give one verse of a poem he made about a beautiful lady of the district.
When Flora's decoration had enriched each situation,
And rural habitation that lay along that way.
I being rapt in contemplation on viewing the recreation.
It was grand illustration that I thought just to extol.
When to my admiration I met a constellation
Whose proper appellation
Is the Phoenix of Cootehall.
