Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. Hedge-Schools Castlerea

   

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   No 1 At Main Street, Castlerea, down in the garden (at the back of Finnegan's House) under a tree, sitting on a stone, a School Master, named Dan Harkin, taught school.

   No 2. Ar 'Arm' Castlerea, there was a Hedge School, taught by Harry Young.

   3. Sir William Wild, The great eye Specialist, lived in a thatched house (opposite the Court House) in Castlerea.

   4 The National Bank, Castlerea, is built on the site of a thatched house in which lived a lady, Mrs Bell.

   5 There was, in Olden times, a Pattern held in the Village of "Emla" Castlerea.

   Notes taken down from a man born in the town of Castlerea in the year 1871

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

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   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

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   Handwritten

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   Roman script