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Rathkenny School
St. Louis National School School Road Rathkenny Navan County Meath Telephone 046-9054417 Email: rathkennyps@eircom.net
Miriam Coogan - Principal Ms. Coogan (Brennan) is the Principal of St. Louis N.S. She took up her position in November 2006. Previously she taught in the other school of the parish, Stackallen N.S., for 26 years (September 1980 - October 2006); she was Deputy Principal for twenty of those years. Having taught all class levels within the school, she has a wide and varied experience of teaching. Until this year, she has prepared all First Communion choirs and most of the Confirmation choirs in the parish. She has also trained football and basketball teams and generally been involved in all aspects of school life. This is a two-teacher school. The Assistant Teacher is June Curtis. Mrs. Curtis teaches the Junior room, Junior Infants - Second Class. She has been teaching in Rathkenny for over 30 years and so is a highly experienced teacher.
STACKALLEN SCHOOL:
St. Patrick's National School
Slane County Meath. Telephone 046-9024207 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
James Hoey - Principal This is a nine-teacher school. SCHOOLS At his visitation of Rathkenny in 1799 Dr. Plunkett, bishop of Meath, offered " congratulations on the male and female schools established and supported by Baron Hussey and his Lady" The Education Report of 1826 states that 20 Catholic children attended school at Rathkenny in a house built of lime and stone. It was erected by subscription in 1810. The same report mentions a school held in the chapel of Rushwee and attended by forty four children and a school held in the chapel of Grangegeeth. It was attended by one Protestant and thirty one Catholics. There was also a school at Gernonstown held in a room in a mud cabin. A sum of ?5 was " paid to the master by subscription of Catholics for educating poor children of their Communion". The Report of 1835 mentions a hedge school at Rathkenny, opened in 1834 where the children were taught reading, writing, spelling and catechism. A national school was opened in Creewood in 1833.A school at Grangegeeth came under the Education Board in 1840. In 1969 Creewood and Grangegeeth schools were amalgamated. Special buses were commissioned to transport children, inconvenienced by the closures, to their new school venue at Stackallen.
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