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"The new Gaol at Trim opened in 1834 to replace the Gaol on the far side of the river. This new Gaol only operated until about 1870 and then in 1890 it was transformed into an industrial school for pauper children. Known as the Trim Joint School it was often mis-named Trim Giant School. The school was established to prevent children being brought up as paupers in the workhouses and giving them a good trade. The unions of Drogheda, Trim, Kells, Navan came together to form the school.

On 12 February 1912 John Kelly, an assistant teacher in the Trim Joint School, was killed in the schoolyard by a group of boys who were armed with brushes and sticks. John Kelly was on yard duty with forty boys at about quarter to seven in the evening. There was said to have been a dispute over a hurley with one of the boys a few days previous. The boys, aged between ten and sixteen, planned the attack. A young boy called Tommy Reilly struck the teacher on the back of the head with the head of a brush. Kelly fell to the ground where boys set on him with sticks and hurleys. Knocked unconscious the teacher died a half an hour later still lying in the school yard, where he was discovered by Samuel Kelly, the headmaster. A number of boys absconded with Reilly being picked up by the police in Clonee. Some say the boys were aiming to get Samuel Kelly rather than the young assistant teacher from Rush in north County Dublin. Samuel Kelly had previously been attacked by Reilly with a brush.

The court case was held at Trim a month later in March 1912 before Grand Jury under Lord Justice Cherry. Reilly was convicted of manslaughter and as he was under 16 sentenced to three years in a reformatory. A number of older boys were sentenced to three years penal servitude while two boys were discharged. Indignant letters were written to the papers about the young boys and their character. Fr. Woods, chaplain to the School and parish priest, wrote in the paper that Reilly’s father was a lunatic who was sent to an asylum for an attack on a priest on Drogheda and this explained his actions.

The murdered teacher, John Kelly, was the sole means of support for his mother and she took a case against the school for compensation under Workman’s Compensation Act. The County Court Judge awarded Mrs. Kelly £100 compensation but this was appealed as the school board felt that it was a conspiracy rather than an accident. The School Board appealed to the House of Lords and the appeal was allowed ..."

From - meathhistoryhub.ie/trim/ (near bottom of page)

Trim Gaol, demolished in the 1950s

Ooo, there is a bit more history at the foot of the page, under the photo ...

"Forty years later two men lost their lives at the demolition of the gaol in June 1953. Employees of Meath County Council, Peter Smith of Castlemartin, Navan and Michael Shiels of Marshallstown, Kilmessan were killed in a fall. Peter Smith was an explosives expert and he and Shiels were putting a charge of gelignite in a wall on the third floor of the building when the landing collapsed and the men were hurled thirty feet into the basement with a portion of the wall crashing down on top of them.

Kitty Dowling wrote “How Far Home” in the mid 1990s which told the story of Samuel Kelly, master of the Industrial School, who banished his wife to England believing that she had an affair. The book told the story of Kitty Dowling’s grandmother and her mother’s quest to find the man with whom Mrs. Kelly was reputed to have been having an affair. The book also supports the case that the boys attacked the victim they intended to murder rather than Samuel Kelly. In 1997 Vincent Dowling and Pat Laffan gave a reading of the book in Trim Library.

Today a song entitled “Trim Joint School” recalls the activities and characters of the long gone institution. "

A star shaped prison, no longer standing:

Now the site of Scoil Mhuire. The school website says The Sisters of Mercy bought the current site in the late 1960s and built a new Secondary school that was officially opened in 1969., will check for Monkey shots of this building.

Pomeranian

"THE COURTHOUSE.
Todays Court House and Heritage Centre now stands where an original building was built in 1735 as a barracks to accommodate a half company of soldiers but was also used also as a Court House from these early days. In the early part of the 19th century a Revenue Office was opened here and then during the famine an overflow of 120 people from the Work House were housed in the upper third story of the building.
During the same era General Sessions of the Peace were held in June and December and Petty Sessions the first Monday in every fortnight. A special court was also held every three weeks for the recovery of debts not exceeding ten pounds.
The building was burned down during 1920 and rebuilt and opened again in 1927. ..."

via - www.facebook.com/188759031195299/photos/a.185879658419152...

So photo before 1920.

Patrick Comerford is interesting about the three-arched Market House (and cottages out of sight behind).
www.patrickcomerford.com/2020/10/town-planning-bridges-an...
Can anyone read the clock ?

maps.app.goo.gl/YbhhDvc6pcA3FUSD7

I see two dogs, but the white animal in the right foreground is a chicken, pecking.

Another photo says it is the school -
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559624

And the photos were taken on different days.

St Patrick’s Square, Laytown, Co Meath

I see your dog and raise you a few chickens.

DannyM8 BadAAArk!
The other photo has a dog staring right at the camera.