Roll Book Banagher Boys National School
- IE OCL P35/1/1
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- 1888-1890
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
Information recorded under headings; which include pupils, age, and register no., class number and attendance fees.
Roll Book Banagher Boys National School
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
Information recorded under headings; which include pupils, age, and register no., class number and attendance fees.
Pupils payments for ink and firewood
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
School exercise book used for keeping record of pupils payments for ink and firewood.
Offaly County Committee of Technical Education correspondence book
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
Manuscript copy correspondence book of R. H. Moore, Hon Sec of Offaly County Committee of Technical Education. Banagher Sub-Committee. Includes also copy correspondence of 13th Oct 1929, with E. J. Delahunty, Secretary of Offaly Joint Committee of Education, regarding the appointment of teachers and supervision of classes.
Newspaper clippings - school, railway and Banagher Great Fair
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
This scrapbook comprises mostly of pasted in newspaper clippings on a diverse range of topics.
It includes, for example an account of visit to Banagher Boys National School of Rev Dr Monaghan, PP, Dean of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise.
There is a printed petition to Great Southern and Western Railways regarding proposed discontinuance of services from Banagher to Clara, and several published letters relating to promotion of Banagher Great Fair.
Includes also, letter dated 15th May 1906 on the importance of compulsory education and account of the funeral of the Rev. M. J. Moore S. J. in October 1936.
List of protestant children on the rolls of Cangort Park National School.
Part of Loughton Papers
List of protestant children on the rolls of Cangort Park National School.
The list states that one point there were 23 children registered. However this had been reduced to 12 as a number of them were absent for 13 weeks or more.
J. J. Hogan - unemployment relief schemes
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
Letter from J. J. Hogan, Chief Executive Officer, Offaly Vocational Education Committee regarding schemes for the relief of unemployment and in particular of the amount of unskilled labour required to build a school.
Part of Digby Irish Estates
Introductory report submitted by Trench to Lord Digby, following his arrival on the estate on 1 June 1857. He notes that he spent the first three weeks with his son, T. W. Trench, in Tullamore, and assessed the estate on horseback during this period. Report contains a general sketch of the natural features of the estate; the extent of arable pasture, plantations or bog; the issue of rent collection and methods of valuation; and a survey of the woodlands and their ownership. A post script to the report begins on page 48 and contains further commentary on the state and extent of schooling in the area; use of the Union Workhouse; the levels of pauperism and general notes on the cottier class of tenantry. Also includes a list of current leaseholders on the estate.
Trench sketched scenes from life on the estate over the following pages:
Page 6 Sketch of Old Irish Red Deer
Page 10 Sketch of Geashill National School
Page 20 Sketch of Geashill Village
Page 23 Sketch of Derrigunnigan Wood
Page 25 Sketch of Tullamore Road
Page 27 Diagram of bogland to be drained
Page 29 Sketch of Turf Bog Annagharvey depicting two men fighting with sticks.
Page 31 Sketch of Red Deer
Page 33 Sketch of Killeenmore Moors
Trench, William Steuart
Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
Advertising poster and ticket for Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert in the Boy's School Banagher on Sunday 30th December 1906.
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
Typed letter of 26th January 1918 of [RH Moore Banagher] to Messer's F. A. Waller and Co. Banagher, requesting financial assistance for urgent repairs to Banagher Technical School.
Draft letters to Dean Monaghan PP
Part of Papers of R.H. Moore
Undated handwritten draft address to Dean Monaghan PP from the teachers and pupils of Banagher National School on the occasion of his visit to the school. Address notes, 'the beautiful school in which we at present stand is in itself a lasting testimony of your untiring efforts to secure for us, one of the greatest of earthly blessings, a sound Catholic Education.'