Dungiven Primary School. The photo was probably taken circa 1908. The schoolmaster was Mr. Kilmartin.
These are the boys we have identified to date. Can you identify any others?
Pupil 1: Jimmy Harkin
Pupil 2: Michael Farren.
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Pupil 29: G.McCloskey.
Pupil 30: Tommy McCaul.
Pupil 31: J. McCloskey.
Pupil 32, 33, 34.The Heaney brothers.
Pupil 35: P. Flannigan.
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Pupil 39: Henry McCaul.
Pupil 40: Bernard McWilliams. Became a schoolmaster but changed to engineering and spent his life in Philadelphia Pa.
Pupil 41: Patrick McWilliams. Brother to Bernard above also became a schoolmaster but took over the running of the family business at the family blacksmith/forge at Magherabuoy.
Pupil 42: Theo Higgins The son of Michael Higgins a G.P. in Dungiven at the time and Mary Jane Bryson from Drumsurn. He later studied medicine and was a G.P. in Kilsyth Scotland for a time and in later life in Hawes N. Yorkshire. Died there and buried in Leyburn Yorkshire.
Pupil 43: Tommy Cunning.
Others known to be in in the photo but not as yet identified are Johnny Mulholland a coffin maker who lived at Magherabuoy, Jimmy Pierce and Charlie McCloskey.
Dungiven Primary School 1922. Teachers Mr Gilmartin and Miss O'Connor Drumsurn.
Private John Deans Canadian Army WW2?. Sixth from left top row.
