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School: Damastown (roll number 12327)

Location:
Damastown, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Delia Wilson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 240

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    The present school in Damastown was up till about sixty years ago, a shop, school, and dwelling house combined. It was not a National school. The shop and school were downstairs. There were two rooms. The outer one was the school and the inner a shop. Mr. Philips the teacher was a very old man who wore spectacles and he used to be always eating dandelion during school hours because he had a bad heart. He had a wife and she was old also. She attended the shop and they had no incumberance. He was a gentle old person and he used an ash plant for a cane. The most of the pupils he taught are in America.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maura Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Naptown, Co. Dublin