Local Amenities
The village itself has a cafe, take-away, 2 pubs, 2 shops (until the late 1950s, Rafter's showed weekly films from a makeshift projection room on the outside wall onto the far wall of the shop), a post-office, St James's Roman Catholic church (which dates back to 1833) and St Anne's Church of Ireland (which dates back to 1820), 2 butchers, a newly designed community centre, family and resource centre and indoor sports hall (located outside the village), pottery-shop and a hairdresser. A new History and Genealogy Centre will be opened in 2012 with plans to locate a new caravan and camping park also in place.
To the east of the village is the local vocational school, Colaiste Iascaigh. The parish of Easkey has 3 primary schools situated in the townlands of Rathlee, Killeenduff and Owenbeg. The main national school situated in the village was controversially closed due to lack of numbers. Local parents withdrew their children from the school due to the erection of a telephone mast beside the local Garda barracks. Ironically, some years after the closure, the building is now used as a pre-school.
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