19th Century

The pupils are presented with a timeline stating what part of the century we will be concentrating on
 

Construction of Raheny's first official Roman Catholic School by William Sweetman.

1. An information page that provides additional information and visuals related to William Sweetman and Raheny's first official Roman Catholic School.

2. A location game. The pupils are required to help a tourist find his/her way to the original location of Raheny's first official Roman Catholic School and Rathmore House, by clicking on the correct part of a map. The objectives of this activity are to enable pupils to:

• examine a location map of Raheny,
• use a key to identify the correct location of The first official Roman Catholic School and Rathmore House.

3. A Detective game. The pupils are presented with a page taken from the 'Pettigrew and Oulton Dublin Directory' in 1835. This directory listed the names of people who lived on each street or road in the city and county of Dublin. The first street directories began to be published in 1834. The 'Pettigrew and Oulton Dublin Directory' is a precursor to Thom's Directory. See Mediabank.

A 2005 street directory can be viewed at local libraries.

The objective of this activity is to enable pupils to:

• purposefully examine a piece of written evidence and discover that the Roman Catholic male and female teachers were John McKenna and Mary White, and that the Church of Ireland male and female teachers were Robert and Eleanor Armstrong.
   

Dick's Charity School (Church of Ireland Parochial School) joins 'The Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor of Ireland (Kildare Place Society).

1. An information page that provides additional information and visuals relating to Kildare Place Society.

2. Fill in the gaps. The pupils are required print out the page and fill in the blanks. The topic is Kildare Place Society.

 

Raheny's first official Roman Catholic School (Sweetman's School) joins the National School System.

1. An information page that provides additional information about the National School System.

2. A detective game. The pupils are presented with a page taken from 'A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland', Samuel Lewis, London in 1837. 'A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland' was published in two volumes, with a third volume of maps. It is arranged in alphabetical order by civil, or Church of Ireland, parish. It presents a detailed description of each parish in the country, documenting its size, population, history, churches, schools and gentry. See Media Bank.

The objectives of this activity are to enable pupils to:

• purposefully examine a written source from the 19th century,
• read four sentences about Raheny in the 19th century,
• Click on the hot spot of each one of the four sentences with an appropriate section of the written source.

3. Fill in the gaps. The pupils are required print out the page and fill in the blanks. The topic is The National School System.

Construction of Raheny Infant School. It is the second Church of Ireland parish school, the first being Dick's Charity School.

1. An information page that provides additional information and visuals relating to about the National School System.

2. A location game. The pupils are required to help a tourist find his/her way to the location of Edenmore House, by clicking on the correct part of a map. The objectives of this activity are to enable pupils to:

• examine a location map of Raheny,
• use a key to identify the correct location of Edenmore House.

Construction of a 'new' Raheny Infant School.

Construction of a 'new' Roman Catholic School to replace William Sweetman's building.

1. An information page that provides additional information and visuals relating to the 'new' schoolhouses built in 1875.

2. A detective game. The pupils are presented with a page taken from the 'Thom's Dublin Street Directory' in 1887. This directory listed the names of people who lived on each street or road in the city and county of Dublin. The first street directories began to be published in 1834. A 2005 street directory can be viewed at local libraries. See Media Bank.

The objective of this activity is to enable pupils to:

• purposefully examine a piece of written evidence and discover that it proves that Partrick Sharpe was a teacher in the Roman Catholic School in 1887.

3. A location game. The pupils are required to help a tourist find his/her way to the original location of Raheny Infant School (1875) and the 'Old' National School, by clicking on the correct part of a map. The objectives of this activity are to enable pupils to:

• examine a location map of Raheny,
• use a key to identify the correct location of Raheny Infant School (1875) and the 'Old' National School.
   

Raheny Infant School, becomes Raheny Schools and is the main Church of Ireland Parish School.
 

Raheny Schools (formerly Raheny Infant School), joins the National School System. By 1887 Dick's Charity School and Coolock Parish School close and their pupils are transferred to Raheny Schools.