School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 340
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: Cromadh (B.)
- XML Page 340
- XML “Hedge-Schools and Schoolmasters”
- XML (no title)
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)The walls of an old building near the "fort of the dead" on the lands of Mr. Neville Caherass Croom are pointed out as the remnants of a hedge school.Before the erection of the present Catholic Church in Croom about the year 1824 - at least definitely before emancipation - Mass was celebrated in the ruin in Anhid graveyard. A "mass-house" was erected in the field near the .. / 120 yards from .. point where the Charleville road into Islanmore domain. This was used for some time but there is a belief that there was a "mass-house" near the existing Protestant Church in Croom also. * a Holy-water trough of octagonal plan with scooped out basin somewhat as represented by the accompanying crude sketches was found in a lumber room of the Protestant Church, Croom some years ago and is now inside the gallery entrance door - Gospel side - of Croom Catholic Church. It is believed by the Parish Priest to have been the[Drawing] - view looking into trough[Drawing] - side view ** This sketch is wrong. For correct sketch and note see page 113 section 41 X(continues on next page)
(no title)
“Two things that should be kept in no man's house...”
"Two things that should be kept in no man's house: a crowing hen and a whistling woman" - Collector
- Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Ó Ceanntabhail
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
