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School: An Clochán (roll number 7777)

Location:
Cloghans Hill, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Liam Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 005

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    English to learn its spelling and the same of Irish. Next day he asked it of them. They learned it as best they could.
    The food those pupils had for dinner usually was oaten cakes and often potatoes.
    There was another Hedge-School in Coolcun. A man named J. Ryan taught in his own house. I heard he was a great Teacher both in Irish and English. A lot of people from other villages went to school to him. His home was a small thatched cottage.
    The scholars who went to those Hedge-Schools paid the Teachers themselves. Two shillings and sixpence was the fee charged by those people
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Delia Rielly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Curramore, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Thomas Rielly
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Curramore, Co. Mayo