School: Leamh-choill
- Location:
- Drumsillagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Ghadhra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 004
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- Lapoil N.S., which was built in 1884 A.D. on the lonely Eastern shore of Loch Eidin, has its gables facing north and south and the front of the school weathers the East winds. The historic Curlew mountains, can be seen from the western windows away across to the S. West of Loch Eidin, and Sliabh an Iarainn stands away in the cold North.
The name “Laphoil” was given to the building in 1884 by Canon Kelly P.P. of Cootehall, believing it to be a more cultured form of the word “Laughill” a neighbouring townland, locally pronounced “Lochfuil”. The older schools of Laughill and Moig were abandoned and all the children came to Laphoil – Male and Female. Laphoil Male and Female was amalgamated on 4:IX:’05.
The present manager, Rev. James Mulligan P.P. has changed the name to “St. Eidin’s N.S.”, St. Eidin being the saint who is buried in Tumna Graveyard, and in whose memory the loch is named. Her tomb has given the name “tuam an mná” –“the tomb of the woman” or “tuam an átha” – “the tomb of the ford” to the Electoral Division.
As may be seen from the sketch map on foregoing page, this peninsular district, has no claim to great fertility of soil, neither has it taken a very active part in any of the great historical movements of the past. The people, generation, after generation have eked out an honest existence from the “dauby” soil, bogland, river and moorland. The holdings of land are small varying from 6 Irish acres to 45 Irish acres. In ancient and older times the people crossed the Shannon to C’k on Shannon in boats. Hartley Bridge was built in 1910 Cootehall and Knockvicar Bridges and quays were built in 1846, as “Relief Work”.
