Courtnacuddy - Cúl Mochuda
Courtnacuddy National School
In line with the research of Tom McDonald, the opening of the new school at Courtnacuddy was on the weekend of the All-Ireland senior hurling final in 1960, Rev. Jeremiah Anglim performed the most elaborate rituals and ceremonies plus reciting endless prayers and blessing each room where he placed Crucifixes and holy statues. |
Castleboro
Robert Carew got the estate first, at the time of the Cromwellian Plantations, in 1668. At the time it was called Bayboro, but later became known as Castleboro. By the following year Robert Carew had bits of land in different places all over Ireland. He had 900 acres in Co. Waterford and he had over 1600 acres around his estate in Castleboro. The present castle was built by Robert Shapland Carew, around 1883. It was badly damaged by a fire in 1840 and it was then rebuilt into a beautiful mansion. There were four entrances to the state and each one was a granite lodge. The Carew family built their castle on the site on the estate and they had a lot of private grounds around it, for privacy. These grounds included pleasure gardens, groves, fish ponds, lanes and terraces. It also included a farmyard, glasshouse, vegetable garden, the mill and the stables.
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The Carew family were very good at educating the children of the estate. They were very interested in the welfare of their people and they proved this by their actions. The Carew’s school system started in 1831; it wanted the children of different religions be educated in the same schools. Lord Carew carried out this wish when he built two schools on the edge of the estate for the children of his workers. The first school was a two roomed building on a site opposite the church in Cloughbawn, two miles from the castle. It was a mixed school boys and girls, both rich and poor, Catholics and Protestants, all working and learning together. As well as Reading, Writing and Arithmetic the children also learned the three languages of Latin, Greek and French. The Lord and Lady would visit their school often and sometimes their family and friends would come too. The Carew family were always seen as very good landlords. A lot of what did for their tenants is written about in books.
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