School: Glenderry (roll number 10403)
- Location:
- Gleann Doire, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Gleathbhúir
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- No other country in the world suffered more than Ireland in the penal days.
No man could then have a horse worth more than five pounds. No priest could say mass in the church. No man could teach his children in a school.
If a man brought in a head of a priest, or teacher, or wolf he would get five pounds. He was forbidden the exercise of his religion, forbidden to purchase, forbidden to rent any land, that was worth more than thirty shillings a year; forbidden to read(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Kirby
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Gleann Doire, Co. Chiarraí
