School: Dún Ceann Fhaolaidh (roll number 15499)
- Location:
- Dunkineely, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seaghan Mac Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1038, Page 323
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- (continued from previous page)The No 2. National School was built in 1902. There is no trace of any hedge school in the immediate locality.
- The district appears to have been well supplied with corn mills in olden times. There are the remains of two at Bruckless as well as the remains of a scutch mill & flax mill. One of those corn mills was in commission until about forty years ago. The flax mill was burned much earlier. There is also the remains of a very old mills about ½ mile to the east of Dunkineely. The walls of this structure were intact until a few years ago but very little now remains to show where it was. The mill race about a mile long can still be traced to its source in a pool on the Bunlackey river. A millwright well acquainted with mill machinery told me that the fittings of this mill were intact sixty years ago although the mill was not working(continues on next page)
