School: Na Frasa (roll number 16375)
- Location:
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Robhartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 168
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- (continued from previous page)ruined Franciscan monastery. Clay is yet raised from beneath the old altar as it is supposed to be able to banish rats.
- The little estate in Dysart with which Hugh Roe O'Donnell endowed the Franciscans was purchased by Daniel Mac Devitt, Glenties, in 1870. This little estate was sold under the 1903 Land Purchase Act, and the terms were very satisfactory to the tenants. On this estate [account] was a small freehold farm with a very comfortable slated house that had long been used as a school.
Here the Hibernian Bible Society had established a proselytising centre, but they never succeeded in capturing even one child or grown up from the Catholic fold. Paddy Furey was in charge of this educational institution down to the year 1854 when, owing to the opening of the National School at(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bernadetta Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- John Hanley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Drumard, Co. Donegal
