Industrial school

Industrial school

In Ireland the Industrial Schools Act of 1868 established industrial schools (Irish: "scoileanna saothair") to care for "neglected, orphaned and abandoned children".

In England the 1857 Industrial Schools Act was intended to solve problems of juvenile delinquency, by removing poor and neglected children from their home environment to a boarding school. The Act allowed magistrates to send disorderly children to a residential industrial school. An 1876 Act led to non-residential day schools of a similar kind.

There were similar arrangements in Scotland, where the Industrial Schools Act came into force in 1866. The schools cared for neglected children and taught them a trade, with an emphasis on preventing crime. Some of these schools were known as reformatories or, later, as approved schools. In recent times these schools have become notorious for the rampant sexual, physical and mental abuse that took place within their walls, often at the hands of members of the religious orders running them.

Irish industrial schools

The following schools in Ireland were run by religious orders and funded by the public:
* Artane Industrial School, Dublin
* Our Lady of Succour, Newtownforbes
* St. Ann’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Renmore, Lenaboy, Co. Galway
* St. Ann's Industrial School for Girls, Killarney, Co. Kerry
* St. Anne’s Industrial School for Girls, Booterstown, Co. Dublin
* St. Anne’s Reformatory School for Girls, Kilmacud, Co. Dublin
* St. Augustine’s Industrial School for Girls, Templemore, Co. Tipperary
* St. Bernard’s Industrial School for Girls, Fethard, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
* St. Bridgid’s Industrial School for Girls, Loughrea, Co. Galway
* St. Coleman’s Industrial School for Girls, Cobh/Rushbrook, Co. Cork
* St. Columba’s Industrial School for Girls, Westport, Co. Mayo
* St. Conleth’s Reformatory School for Boys, Daingean, Co. Offaly
* St. Dominick’s Industrial School for Girls, Waterford
* St. Finbarr’s Industrial School for Girls, Sundays Well, Marymount, Cork
* St. Francis Xavier’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Ballaghadereen, Co Roscommon
* St. Francis’ Industrial School for Girls, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
* St. George’s Industrial School for Girls, Limerick
* St. John’s Industrial School for Girls, Birr, Co. Offaly
* St.Joseph's Industrial School, Letterfrack
* St.Joseph's Industrial School, Kilkenny, Ireland
* St.Joseph's Industrial School, Whitehall, Dublin
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys, Passage West, Co. Cork
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys, Tralee, Co. Kerry
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Clifden, Co. Galway
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Liosomoine, Killarney, Co. Kerry
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Cavan
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Dundalk, Co. Louth
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Kilkenny
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Mallow, Co. Cork
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Summerhill, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Whitehall, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Ferryhouse, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Glin, Co. Limerick
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Greenmount, Cork
* St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Salthill, Co. Galway
* St. Joseph’s Reformatory School for Girls, Limerick
* St. Kyran’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
* St. Laurence’s Industrial School for Girls, Sligo
* St. Laurence’s Industrial School, Finglas, Dublin 11
* St. Martha’s Industrial School for Girls, Bundoran, Co. Donegal
* St. Mary’s Industrial School, Lakelands, Sandymount, Dublin 4
* St. Michael’s Industrial School for Girls, Wexford
* St. Michael’s Industrial School for Junior boys, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
* St.Patrick's Industrial School, Kilkenny
* St. Vincent’s (House of Charity) Industrial School for Junior Boys, Drogheda, Co. Louth
* St. Vincent’s Industrial School for Girls, Limerick
* St. Vincent’s Industrial School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin 8

ee also

* Magdalen Asylum
* Haut de la Garenne

External links

* [http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/browse/eppiLCSH/567.html Reformatory and Industrial School legislation for Ireland]
* [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/haynin/haynin1604.htm Industrial Schools in Scotland]
* [http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/raggedschool.html Industrial Schools in England]
* [http://www.paddydoyle.com/historyofneglect.html History of child abuse in Ireland: Industrial schools]
* [http://www.ultimatedisposal.com/todays%20comments.htm Ultimate Disposal]
* [http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=227 The Goldenbridge Secret Rosary Bead Factory]
* [http://kilmoregenealogy.com/hidden_wexford_genealogy/index2.htm St Michael's Industrial School, Wexford, 1901 & 1911 census]


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