- The new Scoil Naomh Laisrian or
- St Laserians Leighlinbridge National School
- St Laserians Leighlinbridge National
School. Source Google Street View
- Query, Number 22
- Roll,
Number 671
- Application, Number 18
- Leighlin Bridge (Female)
National School
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- PARISH: Leighlin Bridge.
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- TOWNLAND:
- Leighlin Bridge.
- When locally Established:
1826
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Class of Application:
2
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How situated in respect of
Religious Houses: No
Proximity
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- NAMES OF CLERICAL APPLICANTS:
- Established Church - Presbyterian - Roman
Catholic Patrick Kehoe, Gerald
Mahon
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Number of Lay Applicants:
Protestant - 8 Roman
Catholic - 7
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Dimensions of School Rooms:
54½ x 18½
- When taken into connexion by
the Board: 1832 15th September
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- CORRESPONDENT AND POST TOWN:
- Reverend P. Kehoe, Leighlin Bridge
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SCHOLARS: Male
—
Female 168
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- NAMES OF THE TEACHERS:
- Mary
Foran
- Aid-granted toward:
Building — Fitting up see folio 28 — Salary £10 — Requisites see
folio 28
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- DATES OF PAYMENT:
- 31st March &
30 September Up to 31 March 35
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- Number of National Schools
within Three Miles
1842 June 2.
- Paid salary to 31 March 42
£6 Mary Foran Scholars Female 195
- October 24 Ditto 30
September 42 £6 ditto Scholars: Female: 190
1843
Requisites £3.13.8. 9 December 43
April Ditto
[Paid salary to] 31 March 43 £6 ditto [Mary Foran] Scholars Female
202
1845 / 1848 Requisites May
11/- [shillings] 6d [pence]
November 9th.
Granted Salary to Assistant from 1st August 1848. Bridget
Aylward Asst. Salary: 9 13 Requisites £5.6.0. Free
Stock August 1847
1849 / 1850 Requisites
August 11shillings 8pence
1853 December 23rd Application for Salary to a Work mistress rejected, the person
applied for being too young
Board Order
14.12.53 On letter 8931. “Inform Manager, that Miss Aylward
absented herself without permission from the Training Establishment
on Saturday night, and part of Sunday in company with Mr. Carroll
teacher in Training. that they slept in the same house, but that
after the most diligent enquiries the Commissioners ascertained that
they occupied separate rooms, there is no proof that any improper
connexion took place between them. Commissioners notwithstanding the
want of proof of any criminal intercourse, consider her conduct to
have been so very improper that they cannot permit her to remain in
the Training house, or to continue in her school. Her salary
however will be paid up to the period of her leaving the
Establishment."
Requisites
£5.10.0 Free Stock August 1857 £3.0.0. Free Stock September 1853
1854 December 1st Granted Salary to Workmistress from 1st August 1854: Mary Dooley
Work Mistress Salary £8
Transferred to
N.C.B. Volume 1 Folio 39
Source: National School
Register, County Carlow, ED 2/1, fols. 31, 81
HANSARD 1803–2005 Commons Sitting
LEIGHLINBRIDGE NATIONAL SCHOOL.
HC Deb 10 August 1894 vol 28 cc565-6565
DR. KENNY (Dublin, College Green) I beg to
ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1)
whether he is aware that Mrs. Carey, late teacher of the
Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Female National School, was on the
9th of August, 1892, served with a three months' notice of dismissal
by the manager of the said school, the Rev. J. Connolly, P.P.; (2)
whether the notice alleged any cause for Mrs. Carey's dismissal, and
whether Mrs. Carey had been over 20 years a teacher with an
excellent record; (3) is he aware that on the 11th of August, 1892,
Mrs. Carey's husband himself, teacher of the Leighlinbridge Male
National School, appealed to the Rev. Father Connolly to permit Mrs.
Carey to complete her term of service so as to entitle her to full
pension, and that this request was refused by Father Connolly; that
subsequently, on the 29th of August, 1892, Mrs. Carey, by letters,
requested Father Connolly to specify the grounds on which he was
about to dismiss her, but received no reply to her letter; that
before the expiration of the three mouths' notice, on the 14th of
September, 1892, Father Connolly informed Mrs. Carey he would not
even permit her to complete the three mouths, and tendered her
instead a cheque in payment of salary for the period; (4) whether he
is aware that on Mrs. Carey refusing the cheque she was informed by
the rev. gentleman that if she did not accept he would peremptorily
dismiss her husband also from his post by a three mouths' notice;
(5) whether he is aware that Mrs. Carey then laid her case before
the Bishop of the Diocese, the Most Rev. Dr. Lynch, and that after
inquiry by his Lordship, she was on 16th October, 1892, restored to
her position; that subsequently Father Connolly made charges against
Mrs. Carey before the National Board which were investigated by Head
Inspector of National Schools, Mr. Connellan, and Mrs. Carey
exonerated from blame; (6) whether he is aware that Mrs. Carey is
now an inmate of a lunatic asylum; and (7) whether, if the facts are
substantially as stated in question, he will seriously consider the
necessity of legislating with as little delay as possible to put an
end in Ireland to a managerial system under which these occurrences
could take place?
MK. J. MORLEY (1-2.) The statements in the
first two paragraphs of the question are substantially accurate. No
cause was assigned for the dismissal of Mrs. Carey. (3-4-5.) The
allegations in the third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs are in
accordance with the statements made in the correspondence which took
place in the case. It is not correct, however, to say that Mrs.
Carey was exonerated from blame on the Report of the Head Inspector
after the investigation of the complaints preferred against her by
the manager. Of six charges made against her, the Commissioners
practically exonerated her as regards five; but on the sixth charge
they decided that it was sufficiently established and caused Mrs.
Carey to be admonished. (6) There is no foundation for the statement
in the sixth paragraph that Mrs. Carey is an inmate of a lunatic
asylum. On the contrary, she is still schoolmistress at the school
in question. (7) Regarding the concluding paragraph, the
Commissioners inform me that this is an entirely isolated case in
its leading particulars, and has had no parallel in the history of
the National system for the past 60 years.
MR. A. O'CONNOR In view of the serious
character of the allegations contained in the questions, will the
right hon. Gentleman direct a sworn inquiry?
MR. J. MORLEY I cannot pledge myself to that
extent, but the matter shall be carefully considered.
