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16) Helen McElroy a daughter of James was born in the U.S.A. and returned as a three-year-old child to Bawnboy. Her Uncle Eugene, who spent all his life in the village was a member of the first Templeport St. Aidan's Team of 1910. Helen resides now in a comfortable new house close to Seán McGoverns. The old McElroy home was demolished to make way for a new road across Bawnboy Lawn in the 1960s.
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Opposite the mill, where O'Reilly's bungalow now stands was the site of
Bawnboy's first primary school. It opened in 1826 with Charles Brady as
teacher. This was a private school. The number of children varied from
64 to 80. Protestants numbered 10 to 12. The remainder were Roman Catholics,
with slightly more boys than girls. The teacher's income was £5.00
per annum.
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O'Reilly's bungalow, site of Bawnboy's first primary school.
In 1841 the school was transferred to a new site in Rossilk, which was a name given to a part of Kilsob. Patrick McGovern's house in Kilsob is very close to this site. This school was built under the new state system of education which began in 1831. The teacher was Peter O'Neill. He was replaced in October 1845 by F. Duignan, who resigned in June 1849. Thomas Edwards transferred from Drumlougher N.S. to Bawnboy N.S. where he taught from 1849 to 1878.
Bawnboy in 1967 with Aideen Maguire in the foreground
82) A lady teacher, Kate Maguire, Kilsob who had spent some years teaching in Drumlaydan N.S. was appointed as an assistant teacher in Bawnboy in 1872. She was one of a large family who lived in Kilsob, though not a native of the parish. In 1875 the school fell and Kate had a room at her home renovated to serve as a temporary schoolhouse. This room was situated on the Kilsob Lane and was afterwards known as Pee Lunney's (now James McGovern's). The building of a new school started in Kilsob (now Tony McCann's house) and it opened on 1st October 1878. There was a girls' school upstairs with Kate Maguire as teacher and a boys' school at ground level taught by Thomas McKeown.
Kate Maguire married Edward Lunney in 1880. They lived in the little house at the mill in Bawnboy where Séamus McHugh now lives. Mrs. Lunney died in 1895 aged 46 years. Edward and six of his children left Bawnboy and returned to Fermanagh. One of the children, Pee Lunney stayed with the Maguire family in Kilsob and inherited the Maguire house and land. It is now the property of James McGovern, building contractor. A grandson of Edward, Tom Lunney lives with his wife and family at Drummee on the Derrygonnelly road near the Graan.
Coming
from Brackley- Francie Cassidy stops for a chat with Garda Vincent
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We must return once more to the site of the old Bawnboy School of 1826, where the McGoverns of the Mill and the Ball family had their home. When Seán O'Reilly retired from the Mullally pub in 1972 he bought the burnt-out remains of the Ball home and its surrounding garden, and built a new bungalow and outoffices, where he and his wife Peggy reared their family, Mary, Seán, Eileen and Gerald. Most of the family including the parents are now in the U.S.A. Mary is married in Drumlane parish and Seán and his wife Catherine live in the bungalow where their first child Owen was born a few months ago.
Last update: 9 April, 2009 22:32