School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)
- Location:
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 048
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- Long ago a man named Heffernan was a schoolmaster in Castlelyons.
Every day in the middle of the day he used go up to the village for a drink. One day two of the big boys were absent. During the day the master got mind for a drink. He crossed the river and went up the back-way to a public-house. Inside before him were the two boys. They were having a pint each. He brought them back down to the school and gave them twelve slaps each.Often long ago the boys would 'slinge' from school for a whole month. When they would come back to school and Mr. Heffernan would ask them where they were they would say - going round the ditches.There was a hedge school in the corner of a field at Ballymacsimon, Castlelyons, and the priest used say mass near the same place in penal days.
- Collector
- Francis Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
