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School: Eanach Dubh (B.) (roll number 13656)

Location:
Annaduff, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Thomas Morahan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 166

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    Hedge schools were the only means for obtaining an education for our fore-fathers when our state was down trodden to English tyranny.
    During those periods it was a usual thing to see as many as from fifteen to twenty schools in a parish.
    In secluded and remote places such as backs of ditches and under large bushes the teacher taught his pupils. In my own district I have often traversed over the foundations of those hedge schools.
    I was told that a hedge school existed in the townland of Fearnaught, Dromod. The school existed in a cave. It was a man named Foley that
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Bernard Toole
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrick, Co. Leitrim