School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 159
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- There was a hedge-school in the Black-Cellar 100 years ago before any of the National Schools were built. All the people round about used to go to school there and each one would pay the master or give him potatoes.
- St Ciaran's Church is the smallest of all the churches built at Clonmacnois. We are told his first church was shaped like a bee-hive and made of wood, and just big enough to allow him to stretch himself(continues on next page)
