School: Barrlinn
- Location:
- Inse an Airchinn, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chruadhlaoich
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- (continued from previous page)and he gave the following information to our teacher Mrs. Crowley about the hedge school. (He is known as "Seán Bán")
The teacher is Michael Murray from Ahakista.
This school was in a bothán and one stormy night in November the roof was blown in. The Crowleys had just bought the townland of Dromclogh. Their house was very big, Mrs Crowley (who was a Borlinn woman too) invited the "school" into her house and told them she would give them accommodation for the winter. She gave them the middle room upstairs. Seven of her children attended the "school".
On May Day she told them "to be going please", for the winter was over now. So the members disbanded.
- Collector
- Eileen Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire na Fuinseann, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- James Cotter
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Doire na Fuinseann, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Séan O Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Informant
- James Cronin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 65
- Address
- Doire na Fuinseann, Co. Chorcaí
