School: Carrickvallen, Dundalk
- Location:
- Carrickavallan, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Dobhaileáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 170
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carrickvallen, Dundalk
- XML Page 170
- XML “A Local Story - The Wild Goose Lodge”
- XML “Old Schools”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There were many old schools in this district before this present school was built. One of these was situated on a place called Cattie Duffy's hill. There was another shcool in a farm-yard near the present school. It was a teacher named McNally who taught in these two shools. After a short time these schools were closed.
The best known of these school was one at Lannatte (Lannat). The site of this school is still known. The name of the teacher was Cormac Bartley. This school opened about 1880. It is believed that Carleton once taught in it. After his school hours he collected and wrote the facts of the story of the Wild Goose Lodge.
The children who attended this school were all grown-up boys and girls. The principal books they used were the Primer, the Universal and Maunsell Reading.(continues on next page)
