The first school in District 10, the Ireland District, was built on the further end of the Nash Road in East Windham.

Neighbors at the time pitched in and built a simple one room building which served the children for a while. It was on the right hand side of the dirt road, which eventually led to Bakers “mountain,” and next door to a family named Cram. The area was settled by many families whose ancestors came from Ireland, hence the name. There were many Elders, Varneys and Field families here.

By 1840, 20 families were in this neighborhood and among them, 65 scholars. The schoolhouse was suitable for 32 students, and the overcrowding may have prompted the building of a new school at the corner of Nash and Falmouth roads.

About this time, a school further down the Falmouth Road toward the lake, was closed. It was called the Scotland school. The two districts were combined and children from the Scotland district attended the Ireland school. Records indicate that the new school burned around 1900, and a third school was built.

The Ireland school was closed in 1944. The empty building was used for a while as a Legion Hall, then a church school and in the early 1950s, the old schoolhouse was destroyed by fire.

Many local women taught at the Ireland School in Windham including Clara Nash, Phyllis MacDonald and Marion Hodgdon, shown in the photo with some of her students.