"When Alec Davis, the owner of the Old School House, a converted period home in Skerries, was renovating it in 2010, he came across a hand-written note, attached to a wall behind a built-in wardrobe. Written in a child's scrawled handwriting, the note read, "If anyone finds this note, I will give them £5". It was signed 'Breege', but there was no date."
"Through them, he found the girl, Breege McNally, who is now a retired school teacher. She'd grown up in the house and recalled as a little girl, sticking the note to the wall, as her father constructed a wardrobe by hand. The note was returned to her, and then one day, there was a ring on Alec's doorbell. He opened it to see a box containing a framed old £5 note, on the doorstep."
"Written underneath it was: "A promise made is a promise kept." That framed note now sits pride of place in the hallway of The Old School House, which, as its name suggests, was once the local primary school for the Loughshinny community. When the Irish Free State took over from the British administration, there were numerous small schools like these littered across the country."
The Old School House in Skerries is a converted period home built circa 1908 with a 1950s extension, formerly serving as the local Loughshinny primary school. The four-bedroom property was bought in 2008 by Alec Davis when it was in poor repair; he planned to renovate it himself while working for the family heating and plumbing business. During 2010 renovations a child's handwritten note promising to give £5 was found behind a built-in wardrobe. The writer, Breege McNally, was located and later received a framed £5 note left anonymously on the owner's doorstep bearing the inscription 'A promise made is a promise kept.' The house is offered at €535,000 through DNG McKenna Healy.
Read at Irish Independent
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