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School: Scoil N. Bríde, Kilmaine

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Kilmaine, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Maighréad, Bean Uí Ghliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0106, Page 231

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    There is an old ruin in Kilmaine quite near the school which was used as a kitchen to cook food for the sick and dying in an hospital, the house now occupied by Mr Igor
    Teacher Kilmaine, 1848 the time of the famine.
    There was a school quite opposite this is now in ruins, in which a Miss Lainer taught and a Miss O'Brien and a Miss Flanagan a Seamistress.
    In the protestant cemetery here are buried Jennings from whom was descended Lord Kilmaine who fought with great distinction in the French Revolution. There was a school at the place now occupied by Collerans, quite near the old cemetery, it was a hedge school a Mr Mc Grath a brilliant
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Meta Ní Ghlíosáin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilmaine, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mac Ó Glíosáin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmaine, Co. Mayo