While you don't list any of the names I'm researching I just thought I'd mention that my family is also found in Leck Cemetery and I look forward to finding out where the children of that time went to school. I found my family living in Bunnagee in the parish of Leck where some of their neighbors who were mentioned in the parish records and as godparents of the children, were: Friel, McGarvey, Strain, Dunlevy, Rodden, Kane, McElwee, Kenedy, Hegarty, Duffy, McGee, McCarron, Glackin, Taylor, and Kelley as well as Patrick Doherty, Mary Dougherty, Matthew Doherty, Jane Doherty, Catherine Doherty (wife of James Hegarty), William & Mary (Rodden) Brown and their children John, Edward & Sara Brown, Hugh Brown, Robert Brown. I research the Brown/Doherty family and the children of that family would have been in school from about 1868 (depending on the age when a child might have started school) until the last child (might have) started school in 1885. Kathy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I have just found my long searched for Great-Grandfather James > Sweeney, Jan 9, 1876. Baptised as James Langan. The name change was > what threw me for a bit. The Langans who are probably the fathers side > (as yet unproven) are buried in Leck Cemetary, Oldtown. > > I am wondering where a child, born in Letterkenny, Donegal in 1876, > would go to school. Any ideas before I order a gadzillion of school > register films throught LDS library. > > thanks for all the great travel ideas. got them filed for next years' > trip to donegal. > > cheers > > marilyn ann love > calgary alberta canada > > researching: > Langan/Sweeney > Coll/Fearns/Ferrands > Connor/McBride/Smith > Boyce/Buchanan/Burke/Butler > Donegal/Scotland/Australia > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Letterkenny Schools > From: > "P.J." <[email protected]> > Date: > Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:37:27 +0100 > To: > "marilyn anne love" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > > To: > "marilyn anne love" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > > > Marilyn Ann, > > I just had a quick look through 'Letterkenny Past and Present' by Sam > Fleming and was sure that there would be plenty about the local > schools but sadly, that is not the case. There is however a little bit > about places of higher education in the town. I would suspect that not > many would have the opportunity to attend those though, at the end of > the nineteenth century. > > The building of St. Eunan's College (for boys) commenced in 1904 and > it opened in 1906. However, before St. Eunan's was built a school for > higher education was established in the Literary Institute, around > 1872-76. According to Fleming, 'The Loreto Convent was probably the > first institution for higher education to be established in > Letterkenny'. The Loreto Nuns were invited to Letterkenny in 1849 so > presumably, the school was built shortly afterwards. > > I realize this is not what you are looking for Marilyn but it may be > of use to someone on the list. I am sure that there are some > comprehensive sources of information out there about the Letterkenny > schools. > > P.J. >

Hi My gg grandfather Robert McConnell was born 1866 in Letterkenny he was not RC as far as i know . a couple of you names on here jump out . I have McCarron and Doherty, Kane , however they lived in Scotland but born in Ireland sorry to say i dont know which part . Kind regards jean (Aussie) On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:03 AM, K <[email protected]> wrote: > While you don't list any of the names I'm researching I just thought I'd > mention that my family is also found in Leck Cemetery and I look forward > to finding out where the children of that time went to school. > > I found my family living in Bunnagee in the parish of Leck where some of > their neighbors who were mentioned in the parish records and as > godparents of the children, were: Friel, McGarvey, Strain, Dunlevy, > Rodden, Kane, McElwee, Kenedy, Hegarty, Duffy, McGee, McCarron, Glackin, > Taylor, and Kelley as well as Patrick Doherty, Mary Dougherty, Matthew > Doherty, Jane Doherty, Catherine Doherty (wife of James Hegarty), > William & Mary (Rodden) Brown and their children John, Edward & Sara > Brown, Hugh Brown, Robert Brown. I research the Brown/Doherty family > and the children of that family would have been in school from about > 1868 (depending on the age when a child might have started school) until > the last child (might have) started school in 1885. > > Kathy > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> I have just found my long searched for Great-Grandfather James >> Sweeney, Jan 9, 1876. Baptised as James Langan. The name change was >> what threw me for a bit. The Langans who are probably the fathers side >> (as yet unproven) are buried in Leck Cemetary, Oldtown. >> >> I am wondering where a child, born in Letterkenny, Donegal in 1876, >> would go to school. Any ideas before I order a gadzillion of school >> register films throught LDS library. >> >> thanks for all the great travel ideas. got them filed for next years' >> trip to donegal. >> >> cheers >> >> marilyn ann love >> calgary alberta canada >> >> researching: >> Langan/Sweeney >> Coll/Fearns/Ferrands >> Connor/McBride/Smith >> Boyce/Buchanan/Burke/Butler >> Donegal/Scotland/Australia >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Subject: >> Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Letterkenny Schools >> From: >> "P.J." <[email protected]> >> Date: >> Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:37:27 +0100 >> To: >> "marilyn anne love" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >> >> To: >> "marilyn anne love" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >> >> >> Marilyn Ann, >> >> I just had a quick look through 'Letterkenny Past and Present' by Sam >> Fleming and was sure that there would be plenty about the local >> schools but sadly, that is not the case. There is however a little bit >> about places of higher education in the town. I would suspect that not >> many would have the opportunity to attend those though, at the end of >> the nineteenth century. >> >> The building of St. Eunan's College (for boys) commenced in 1904 and >> it opened in 1906. However, before St. Eunan's was built a school for >> higher education was established in the Literary Institute, around >> 1872-76. According to Fleming, 'The Loreto Convent was probably the >> first institution for higher education to be established in >> Letterkenny'. The Loreto Nuns were invited to Letterkenny in 1849 so >> presumably, the school was built shortly afterwards. >> >> I realize this is not what you are looking for Marilyn but it may be >> of use to someone on the list. I am sure that there are some >> comprehensive sources of information out there about the Letterkenny >> schools. >> >> P.J. >> > When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific text to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED ARCHIVES AT > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ > > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE > > SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES: > Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ > Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ > Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Kind regards Jean