School: Synge, Inagh (roll number 14440)
- Location:
- Glennageer, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máirtín Flynn
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“Many years ago a man was coming home by night from a...”
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Many years ago a man was coming home by night from a neighbours house which was about a quarter mile from his own home. It was about eleven o clock at night and in the month of December.
He had to travel through fields to get to his house and it was very dark.
When he was near the door a light came between him and the door and he followed the light over bogs and mountains till the dawn of day when the light disappeared. He then found that he was miles and miles away from home.
Ian Griffin - Maurices Mills - 77 years
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“There was a hedge school long ago at Knockatour...”
There was a hedge school long ago at Knockatour, in the house where Edward Ryan is living now. The teacher was Michael O Donoghue.
There was another school in Cloonanaha, in the house where William Collier lives presently and the teacher was Peter Mc Curtin.
The teachers long ago had no homes. They used to go home a night in turn with each pupil.
John Devitt Fermoyle 87 years - Informant
- John Devitt
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Formoyle Eighteragh (East), Co. Clare