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School: Páirc na Rian (C.), Rampark, Jenkinstown (roll number 4882)

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Rampark, Co. Louth
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M. Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0660, Page 243

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    teach school in his own house every night. My grandfather Anthony Mc Dermott used to attend it when he was a boy. One of the chief subjects taught there was astrology He used to get money every month for teaching.
    A man named James Keenan a native of Jenkinstown used to go around this district teaching school.
    James Mc Ardle was a hedge-school master who taught in Castle-town Cooley in a house beside the main road. The pupils used to bring him a few pence every week as payment for their instructions. When the children were preparing for Confirmation he would send them to Mrs O Hagan to be taught Catechism.
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