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School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 2909)

Location:
Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0499, Page 249

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    So far as can be found the hedge school masters of this place long ago were "The Great O Baggott, John Croke, John Murphy, John Murphy (2), John Moore and Thomas Dalton- Cronin-Farrell.
    The Great O Baggott was a member of the United Irish Society. Once Lord Edward Fitzgerald " the leader of the '98 rebellion visited him at Ballingarry and met him at the Bridge House now Sheehys public house.
    O Baggott also worked in union with Robert Emmet and had plans prepared for the capture of Limerick in 1803. These plans failed O Baggott died in Charleville in 1806 and is buried in Kilmacow graveyard about three miles east of Ballingarry. His school was in a field now belonging to Peter Dunworth at Tinkers Cross about a mile from Ballingarry. One of his pupils was John Croke who afterwards taught a hedge school near Ramhorn Line about three miles south west of Ballingarry.
    Patsy Mangan of Frankfort dead over twenty years was one who attended Croke's school.
    Crokes son became a professor. Professor John O Byrne Croke and was a professor of Blackrock College Dublin until his death in 1918.
    John Murphy taught at Knockfierna near the house of Mrs Broderick
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael O' Grady
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    81
    Informant
    Mrs Kiley
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    68
    Address
    Ballyguilebeg, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Pat Cronin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Doonbeirne, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr Murphy
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60