School: Naomh Breandán (C.), Blennerville (roll number 16899)
- Location:
- Blennerville, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuircheartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0440, Page 612
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Naomh Breandán (C.), Blennerville
- XML Page 612
- XML “Local Heroes”
- XML “Old Schools”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)catch them with his hands.
- Half a mile from the village of Castlegregory there was hedge school which was called Bothan na scoile. It was situated in a field belonging to Mr. T. Courtney, and the school was taught by Mr. J. Hoare of Maherabeg, Castlegregory. It was taught in a cabin, and near the cabin was a cave where pupils, and teachers escaped when they saw the soldiers coming. The cave was forgotten by the present generation until Mr. Courtney was ploughing the fields about twenty years ago when the roof of the cave collapsed. Then(continues on next page)
