National school records from various primary schools in Offaly and bordering townlands. Mainly contain registers and roll books concerning, respectively, the registration and the daily attendance of pupils; and also smaller amounts of other records such as daily attendance statistical report books and inspectors books.
The registers record a pupil's name, age, and date of birth, and the address and occupation of parents.
Research on Ballycumber Castle Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Lemanaghan, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: 888.
Contains a field sheet, a written report over one page and six photographs.
Roll books, daily attendance books, school registers, daily report book, a district inspectors observation book, and scheme of work and monthly progress record of Boher National School, Ballycumber.
UntitledNote by Padraig Ó Beolain (Patrick Boland), Ballycumber, in Hut 12, Tintown:
'Níl aon teinteáin mar do theinteán féin'
Quote from Oliver Goldsmith transcribed by Patrick Boland (Castletown, Ballycumber, Offaly), Tintown No 3 Camp
'The patriots flatter still shall wisdom find
An equal portion dealt to all mankind'