School: Newcastle
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Máire Ní Fhotharta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 201
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- The old school in Newcastle was in Mr. Doyle's garden beside the river. It was only a thatched house. There were about forty children in the school and four or five seats and each seat held from eight to ten pupils. There was only one black-board. The children all used slate-pencils up to second class and then the higher classes pen and ink but no lead pencils were used at all.
Mr. Murphy was the first teacher and the longest that can be remembered, and after he died his daughter succeeded him and Miss Loughlin also taught in it before she came to the present new school.
Catholics and Protestants went to the same school but the Protestants went home at half past two when the Catholics had their religious instruction.
- Informant
- Andrew Byrne
- Gender
- Male
