School: Lappen (roll number 2020)

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   In Kelly's "Well Field" Annacramp there was an open air school. After that they held school in Kelly's barn. It was the same teacher. He stopped in an adjoining house - now a hen house. They wrote on slates. In the open air school they sat on the bank beside the hedge. Edward McClusky, Killyneil, whose father knew the teacher says that only writing was taught.
   Mrs McClusky (above) remembers a school in Lappin's Barn, Alkill. The teacher's name was Donal Lappin.
   In Arthur McGuinness', where James Gilliland lives now in Annacramp, there was a school. The teacher stopped in house where James Mullen lives in Carrokeel. It was a doctor owned that place. He stopped with the doctor.

   This school (Lappan, Castleshane, Parish of Tyholland Co Monaghan) was built about the time of famine - said to have been built actual year of

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Cluskey

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   85

   Address

   Drumnahunshin, Co. Monaghan