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School: Drumdigus (C.), Kilmurry McMahon (roll number 13479)

Location:
Drom Díogais, Co. an Chláir
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0600, Page 089

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    keeping" for three months after. The police were searching for him, but they failed to find him. He afterwards stole away to America.
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    There was an old school convenient to the Protestant Church in Kilmurry. It was a "Souper School. There was a fairly good building in which the school was held and the ruins of it are yet to be seen. A Mr. Hunt taught there. This was in the bad times when Catholics were induced to sent their children to such schools in order to be fed with soup and bread. Although the poor people were very badly in need of assistance very few of them sent their children to the soup school and in a short time it had to be discontinued.
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    Before the National schools were built the school-masters used to teach their pupils at the back of the hedges on in remote mountain glens and for that reason the school-masters were known as the hedge schoolmasters. There were many of these school throughout the country in olden times. There was a hedge school in Benvoran, the teacher was Tadhg Ryan. He used to teach his pupils reading, writing, and arithmetic. There was no need for teaching them Irish as it was the spoken
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    Topics
    1. earraí
      1. struchtúir de dhéantús an duine
        1. foirgnimh
          1. scoileanna (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Neylon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Binn Mhóráin, Co. an Chláir
    Informant
    Francis Kennedy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cúil Mhín, Co. an Chláir