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School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)

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Clongeen, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Brian Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 240

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    In years gone by a Latin teacher lived in Horetown about one mile and a half from he village of Foulksmills.
    He was a very learned man and I think it was in the Carmelite Convent of Horetown that he thought the Latin but perhaps he had a school of his own as well, there are accounts of Hedge schools being held in that area. The Convent was situated in Horetown or Goff'sbridge up a small laneway from the road at the back of the place where "Goffsbridge Inn" now stands. There was one priest there - we find reference to him in a letter from Bishop Caulfield to the Pope during
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