School: Carnaross, Kells (roll number 3852)
- Location:
- Carnaross, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0705, Page 053
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- There is a particularly interesting account on the parish schools back to the end of the seventeenth century when Hugh Brady Parish priest and school master of a school in Dulane. A century later Dr. Plunkett tells in his diary of a school in Loughan.
I 1824 there were six schools including one kept by Simon Bardon in a miserable cabin at Castle Kiernan and was attended by three protestants and thirty Catholics. Bardon also kept an evening Irish school.
A school kept by Thomas Brady Fegat was held in a small cabin where cows were kept at night and was attended by 24 children. A school at Mullaghea was kept by Patrick Gaffney in a mud wall thatched house.(continues on next page)
