School: Na Frasa (roll number 16375)
- Location:
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Robhartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 107
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- (continued from previous page)say that it was an old poor man that was going along the road begging. In this old cemetry our ancestors lay awaiting the day of General Judgment.
In one corner of the cemetry the old school is built. It was erected in the year 1880. The landlords known as "The Sinclairs" lived in Bonyglen at that time. They would not give the parish priest a site for the erection of a school for the catholics in their estate.
Then the priest had to take a corner of the cemetry for the erection of the school.
Some years later this school was condemned by the "Board of Works", owing to its proximity to the cemetry. Then the present school was erected in 1915.
It is a large and spacious building, having three commodious rooms.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernadetta Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Charles Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Occupation
- Grocer
- Address
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
