School: Athea (roll number 15686)
- Location:
- Athea, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Dhanachair
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- An old school - now an old cabin - is still in the farm of John Sheahan Dirreen . The school was taught by Ml Sheehan . ____________________
The last old hedge school in the parish was in .The Glen , Cratloe , in the farm of Richard Wolfe whose grand daughter, Miss D. Wolfe lives there at present.The hedge school was in use there about 40 yrs ago - no trace of the building is there at present.______________________
Hedge school in Athea was taught by Ml Langan better known then as Michéal Óg - 136 years ago . He worked there for about a year and lived among the people.
He composed the following:-
Is aingheis mo ghnó 'sis ró bhocht dealbh mar shlíghe.Ag teagasc na n-óg a's ní foghanta meastar mé dhíol Geallaim -se dhóibh gach loma fleasca sa tír Gura Fada go ngeóbhfaidh mo shórt sa eatora airís.
This Michéal óg was a son to Ml Langan, steward to Knight of Glin , who changed his faith about 1750
