School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Béal Átha Fhínín, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
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- Mr William Shorten
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- An Sonnach, Co. Chorcaí
- At "Geárr s'lac" in Gearradh Salach? a place some half-mile west of Ahakeera school a man nicknamed Dúnsach kept a hedge school. The school was a small thatched labouring-man's house. For seats the scholars arranged a number of suitable stones to form a stool and on this they placed a Scraith. They wrote on slates which they held on the knees. They used quill pens too. The Catechism was done in Irish, and there was a Catechism class on Sundays in the parish church at Dunmanway - then newly built - where instruction was in Irish. There were no formal Irish lessons, but Irish had to be used(continues on next page)
