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Irish Education Enquiry, 1824
 

Glossary

Parish School and Parish Church mean the Established Protestant Church system of schools.
ADV means the Established Church Society for Schools of the Association for Discountenancing Vice.
'KP' means the Kildare Place Society, i.e. The Society for the Education of the Poor of Ireland, founded in 1811 and made the channel of all new government grants for education between 1815 and 1831.
'LHS' means the London Hibernian Society, a proselytising society, founded in 1806.
'BS' denotes the Baptist Society, a proselytising society.
'ES' denotes the Schools of Erasmus Smith. The governors of this society subsidised and built many elementary schools between 1800 and 1880.

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