State of religious and other instruction now existing in Ireland: second report

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362 a COMMISSION OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, IRELAND. 
Diocese of Desrt 

BENEFICES. 
Description of each School. 
Sources of Support, 

No. 
of Children 

on the Books at the time of Inspection. 

Average daily Attend. 

Whether the average daily Attendance has been increasing! 

stationary, or diminishing, 

for the last fire jears. 

Kind of Instruction. 

MOUNTFIELD. 

Cappagh, Part of 6< 

1. 
Parochial school, kept 

by Joseph Hartin, under the Society for Discountenancing Vice. 
2. 
Recarson school, kept 

by Miles Mullion, under the Kildare-place Society. 
3. 
Mayne school, kept by 

Thos. 
Beatty, under the Kildare-place So¬ ciety. 

4. 
Sunday school, con¬ 

nected with school No. 
1. 

5. 
Sunday school, con¬ 

nected with school No. 
2. 
6. 
Sunday school for adults. 

Society gives £7 a year; Sir W. 
M'Mahon £10, and a house for the master; children pay from Is. 
to 2s. 
Gd. 
a quarter, which produces about £7 a year. 
Children's payments, vary¬ ing from 2s. 
to 4s. 
a quarter each, and producing about £10 in the year. 
Children pay from Is. 
to 2s. 
Gd. 
a quarter each, from which about £5 is collected in the year; Lady M'Mahon gives the master £5 a year for teaching 20 scholars. 

Males. 
52 Females 34 Total. 
86 

Males.. 
Females Total. 
66 Males.. 
50 Females 19 Total. 
69 

Gratuitous teaching. 

Ditto. 

Ditto. 

60to70 

50 

60 

Males.. 
13 Females 13 Total. 
26 

Males.. 
Females .. 

Total. 
40 

Winter 26 Sum¬ mer 50 About 40 Sum¬ mer 50to60 Winter 30 Sum¬ mer 60 

Nearly Stationary. 

Slightly Diminishing. 
Nearly 

• Stationary. 

Reading, writing, ^ arithmetic ; needlework for the females; otle scholar learns Latin {j. 
which he pays 6j, quarter. 
Reading, writing, i 

arithmetic. 

Ditto. 

Diminishing, 

Nearly Stationary. 

Ditto. 

Scriptural instruction. 
Nearly all these children attend daily schools, General scriptural read¬ ing. 
Most of the scholars ate adults, not attending any daily school. 
Scriptural instruction. 
One-third of the scholars attend no daily school. 

Numher of Children on the Booksl of the Daily Schools ..... 
J 

Males. 
155 

Females. 
Total. 
66 221 9. 
MUFF. 

Templemore, Parti 

of ... 
. 

1. 
Parochial school, kept 

by Victor Lynch. 

2. 
Female school, kept hy 

Anne M'Cardless. 

3. 
Three Trees school, kept 

by Stephen Hillis, 

4. 
Derryvane school (tem¬ 

porarily discontinued a few days before the Inquiry). 

Captain Harte, the pro¬ prietor, gives £6 a year; the Dean of Deny, as rector, £2 ; the children pay from Is. 
8d. 
to 2s. 
Gd. 
a quarter each, from which about £8 is collected in the year. 
Captain Harte gives £12 a year; the children pay from Is. 
Gd. 
to 2s. 
a quarter each, from which about £3 is collected in the year. 
Children's payments of Is. 
Gd. 
or 2s. 
a quarter each; the master has a house rent free. 

5. 
Sunday school. 

6. 
Sunday school, con¬ 

nected with school No. 
3. 

Males.. 
48 Females 11 Total. 
59 

Males.. 
5 (very young.) 
Females 43 Total. 
48 Males.. 
31 Females 15 Total. 
46 Children's payments of iMales Is. 
Gd. 
or 2s. 
a quarter, [Females producing about £8 in the year. 

48 

Winter 30 Sum¬ mer 40 29 

23 15 

Gratuitous teaching. 

Ditto. 

Nearly Stationary. 

Diminishing the last year and a half. 

Diminishing. 

Nearly Stationary for two or three years. 

Reading, writing, and arithmetic. 

Reading, writing, arith¬ metic, and needlework. 

100 

28 

Nearly Stationary. 

Just established. 

Reading, writing, arithmetic. 

Ditto. 

and 

Scriptural reading and Church catechism. 
12 are adults; about 50 of the scholars attend no daily school. 
Scriptural reading. 

Number of Children on the Booksl of the Daily Schools j 84 69 

Total. 
153 CLASS IV.—PARISHES 
WITHOUT PROVISION FOR CURE OP SOULS. 
Agivy Grange' Effishbreda . 

Lorn. 
. 
. 
. 

Montaup-hs , 

C 

None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 

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