Annual Report of the Commissioners ..., Volume 741908 |
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31st December accommodation Amalgamated Antrim arithmetic Armagh Attendance of Pupils average attendance Average Daily Attendance Average Number Ballinasloe Belfast boys Carrick-on-Suir cent Church of Ireland circuit classes Clonmel Commissioners convent schools Cookery Cookstown Cootehill Cork County and District County Borough course defective desks DISTRICTS AND PRINCIPAL drawing Dublin Edenderry Elementary Science Enniskillen examination excluding the town exercises fair Galway geography girls given grants improvement infants inspectors instruction Ireland Irish junior assistant mistresses Kilkenny kindergarten King's Scholars large number Limerick Manage ment methods Miss Model schools Monaghan monitors National Schools needlework Number of Pupils number of schools object lessons Omagh organisation PRINCIPAL TOWNS proficiency programme Pupils on Rolls reading Report rule RURAL DISTRICTS satisfactory school attendance Schools in Operation singing Sisters of Mercy Sligo standards taught teaching tion Total for County total number Training Colleges Tyrone URBAN DISTRICTS vested schools visited Waterford women
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