{"id":2079,"date":"2015-05-12T11:53:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/?page_id=2079"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T13:24:37","slug":"history-of-the-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/history-of-the-school\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>History of St. Naul\u2019s N.S. (formerly Keelogs N.S.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dean John Feely, who served as Parish Priest of Inver from 1849 to 1875, applied for several schools to be built in the Parish. These schools needed to be more than three miles radius off the closest school \u2013 these schools included Meenacahan, Glencoagh, Letterfad, Drumboarty, Drimnaheark and Lagan \u2013 all in the 1850s. Later he made applications for Keelogs, in 1856 and Lettermore, in 1872.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dean J. Feely and Fr. M. Kelly, the curate made the application for Keelogs School in December of 1857. The site for the school was given by Robert Montgomery, who lived in Convoy House and who owned the Castleogary Estate in Inver Parish. Permission for a new school was granted and a one room thatched building was erected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">By 1900, the school building was becoming structurally unsound. When the inspector deemed the building to be unsuitable, the Commissioners of Education withdrew all grants and this forced the building of a new school \u2013 a two room school was then opened in early 1905 at a cost of \u00a3550.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">After Lagan was merged with Keelogs there were three teachers in the school so a \u201cpre-fab\u201d was put in place beside the school. When a fourth teacher was appointed the school had two \u201cpre-fabs\u201d \u2013 the usual local shortened term for prefabricated buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In 1990, a new school was built with four classrooms. It was officially opened by Government Minister Mr. Frank Fahy in 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Information kindly supplied by Helen Meehan from her book \u2018Inver Parish in History\u2019.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; History of St. Naul\u2019s N.S. (formerly Keelogs N.S.) &nbsp; Dean John Feely, who served as Parish Priest of Inver from 1849 to 1875, applied for several schools to be built in the Parish. These schools needed to be more than three miles radius off the closest school \u2013 these schools included Meenacahan, Glencoagh, Letterfad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2079","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnaulsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}