Does anyone know if there are any surviving records from the Irish Mission Schools. I'm particularly interested in the one that operated in Gortmellia in the mid 1800's.
sydpinman
Wednesday 28th May 2014, 05:46AMMessage Board Replies
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Dear sydpinman
Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!
From the small about of checking I have done it seems that these schools were run by the Church of Ireland. In that case I would think that any records surviving would be in the hands of the Representative Church Body Library in Rathfarnham, Dublin:
http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42
However, the National Archives, Dublin may hold some records as there was an obvious education function and any records created and retained by the Education Board post -1831 may be retained by the Archives. You can contact the Duty Archivist in Dublin:
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/Nat_Schools/natschs.html
I wonder would you gain by contacting the ICM directly about where their records are? http://irishchurchmissions.ie/about/history/
Let me know how you get on
Best wishes
Clare Doyle
Genealogy Support
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Thanks Clare
I've sent a couple of emails to your links.
I sent an email to ICM a while back but got no reply.
Fingers crossed this time.
I'll let you know how I went.
Cheers
Phil
sydpinman