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School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)

Location:
Drimoleague, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Domhnall Ó Ciardha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 109

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    In the penal days the teachers were forbidden to have schools or to teach the children. If they were caught teaching they would be sinserely punished or put to death. Therefore they used be teaching by the hedges and lonely places.
    The Schools were then called hedge-schools. They were mostly built of sods. In the summer time they usen't have any school-house only teaching in the open air. The school-master then was called the hedge-school-master.
    There was a hedge-school to the south of Drimoleague about a mile and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jeremiah Lehane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clashduff, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Patrick Lehane
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clashduff, Co. Cork