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School: Dún Drongáin (B.) (roll number 7231)

Location:
Drangan, Co. Tipperary
Teachers:
Diarmuid Ó Gormáin Labhrás Ó Gormáín
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    Taught at Gleann na Muice Duibe and afterwards at the cross on the Drangan-Mullinahone road (at Pasty Cuiluí's Cross). He taught Irish, English, Latin and Greek.
    Payment was in kind - butter, potatoes, meat etc.
    They did their business well as the following story will show.
    A pupil of his happened to be the subject of a practical joke in one of the public houses in Drangan.
    The trick was played on him by the son of his old master.
    He turned on the youth saying in a loud voice: " Were it not that I spent the greater part of my juvenile days under the tuition of your aged father I'd lay the hazel rod of correction upon your miserable carcass.

    Miss H. Noonan
    Cloneen
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Miss H. Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Cloneen, Co. Tipperary