School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 339
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- (continued from previous page)In Ballybanogue Daniel Banon R.C. 70 Cath. pupils
In Ballyvicorish (name now lost. D. OC.) Gerald Fitzgibbon R.C. 64 pupils. mud house.
Lisaleen (In present parish of Lurriga. D. OC.) pay £30. stone and lime school cost £15
Carhue. P. Storen, small cabin, 100 Catholic pupils.
In Ballypokeen, (townland in Rockhill parish D. OC.) I haven't master's name but he had a salary of £10, a stone school which cost £100 (!?), and 71 Catholic pupils.
Besides the above whose names appear in a Blue Book on schools issued in 1837 I have got from the neighbours the names of the following.
- Dalton taught in Croom in a school near the present Guards' Barrack.
- Jordan taught in a thatched house near Carrigeen Cross between O'Neills and Griffin's on the other side of the road.
-Gleeson went from house to house teaching. The two latter known as "hedge masters."
Paddy Cusick also taught.
Mr. Buckley taught in same place as Mr. Jordan above. School was in operation 80 years ago; so was the school in which Dalton (above) taught.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Rev. Canon Curtin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Priest
