Cavan. Schools.

[Anagh]

Hello,
while looking for records available for Cavan and Monaghan on the LDS site I noticed they had some school records. One of them was  the Drumaloor National School Registers from 1872 - 1967. Could someone please tell me what type of school a National School is, as I am not sure on the Irish School system.
Many thanks

[giving up for a while]

Pre School or Nursery school = 3yrs - 4yrs getting them ready for school

National school = 4YRS- 12YRS doing a total of 8 yrs

Secondary school = 12YRS-18YRS doing a total of 6yrs

After all this they go on to College

Hope this helps
Anne

[Anagh]

Anne
thankyou very much. I was just a bit baffled by the name National.
Just another question, could any religion go to a National school?

[giving up for a while]

Ireland was a very catholic country so the schools would have been run by the catholic church so it would have been very rare or unheard of for other religions to be in the Irish school system. Thankfully all that has changed today

Anne

[Anagh]

Thanks Anne,I just wanted to double check before I went ordering records and they were for the wrong kind of school.

[Christopher]

The 1852 Directory for Belfast and Province of Ulster ... Cavan shows the following schools in the town ...

Academy, Bridge Street, John Brady, teacher
Royal School ... Rev. William Prior Moore, AM., master
Farnham School, Farnham Street ... Henry Fleming, master; Jane Fleming, mistress
Roman Catholic School, Farnham Street ... Rev. John O'Reilly, Rev. N. Connaty and Patrick Curran ... masters.

[aghadowey]

Pre School or Nursery school = 3yrs - 4yrs getting them ready for school

National school = 4YRS- 12YRS doing a total of 8 yrs

Secondary school = 12YRS-18YRS doing a total of 6yrs

Things were a bit different years ago. Children aged usually 4 (although some started at 3) to 14 or so attended National Schools and certainly in some areas they were attended by all religions.
The school registers I have seen all follow the same format- name of child, age (in years or later birthdate given), residence (townland or street if in a town), date of admission, name of previous school, religion, father's occupation.
The registers can be quite good for tracking down people although if the surname is very common in the area it is sometimes difficult to match up siblings.

[adee7]

Are there any school registers available on line?

Kathleen

[aghadowey]

Don't know if any are available online. In Northern Ireland many of them are held at PRONI.