School In Whiterigg And Plains

A Memory of Plains.

I remember most of the teachers at St David's, Whiterigg. I started in 1952 with Miss Quinn, Rose McGuire, Miss O'Regan, Mrs Murray, Mrs Downie, Mr Barron, Leo McGeachan and Mr McShane. We then moved to Plains and Gerry Hughes, Mrs Reilly (music teacher, Miss Murray (art teacher) and Eddie Drummond a young science teacher. We lived in the prefabs at 11 Arden Street next to Davie Rintoul, Mary Kane, Charlie Burns, Henry Lafferty, Bridget Quinn, Wallace Rideout, Tommy Tobin, The Wallaces, John O'Hagan, Pete Kane and Davie Penman,etc. My father's cousin, John Reilly, co-wrote a book with Eddie Devlin and Hugh Lucas called "the lost villages" which I have a copy of. The photo on the front of the book was taken at the finger post in Whiterigg, next to the school and featured Joseph O'Neil, Mary Gilooley, Neil Gilooley and James Gilooley who was in my class all through school.