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School: Clonmacnoise

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Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 253

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    There was a hedge school on School-house hill in Ballyhearth. It was a lean-too, roofed with straw. The Children sat around on blocks of timber, under the lean-too. They were taught reading and spelling but no writing. My great grand-father went to school there, and he was a very good scholar. He was born about 1830 and he remembered the ‘Big Wind’ well. He is only about twenty years dead.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brendan Molloy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Ciaran Coughlan
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Ballaghurt, Co. Offaly