Old School, Collinamuck.

Jim Fahy

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Records show that a site for a school was given by the Martin family of Ross c1835.
A document posted in February 2014 – Proni Document: D/3618/D/15/4 gives a copy of a letter dated February 23rd 1881 from Rev. R. McDonagh P.P. Oughterard to Vere Foster stating that the Collinamuck School is now finished. It gives the measurements as 40 length x 24 breath x 12 height, slated and boarded. This document is accessible via Google – Collinamuck Emigrants.

In 1957 Mr Simon J. Kelly, Architect, Galway was commissioned by Rev. McCullagh P.P. Oughterard to draw plans for a church on the site of the old school.

This page was added on 02/12/2015.

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