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Also check out our Green/Active Schools page for details. And don't forget to check the Event Gallery regularly, for photos of what we get up to during the school day! It currently has a great deal on it.


 

 

 

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This is where you will find us. Not far outside of Manorhamilton. Zoom in and out to get your orientation. 

Largy National School - Welcome

Welcome to the Largy National School website.

We hope you will find the content interesting and informative.

Largy National School - today

Today Largy School is a very fine school set in a rural location overlooking Glenade Valley, a little outside the town of Manorhamilton.  The school building, with recent extensions encompassing kitchen/rest area, toilet facilities, office and storage facilites and resource rooms makes for an excellent learning environment. Once more a two teacher, with a Learning Support/Resource Teachers shared with other Mnorhamilton schools and also a Special Needs Assistant.. The children enjoy expansive outdoor playing areas, including a willow maze, tarmac-ed yard and playground marked for football, basketball,etc, and a grassed football field.

   

Largy National School - a history

The original Largy School was built in the 1880s and closed in the 1940s when the current building was completed. The old school was a one classroom school, as was a number of its smaller country school neighbours.

It had no playground, with the children playing out on the road in front of the school - boys to the left and girls to the right. You can imagine Health and Safety agreeing to that these days!
With constantly falling roll numbers in the 1940s the opportunity was taken to build a bigger, new school, in the Glebe townland, and amalgamate the schools of Largy and Lecknarainey but retaining the name Largy School. The new building consisted of a two room school and with an adjoining playground. A real treat for its then pupils.
Initially with two teachers, at its peak Largy school had 60 children on its roll book however the pupil population in the area continued to deteriorate and by the 1950s this had been reduced to one. Over subsequent years with further amalgamations of Brackarybeg, Killasnet and finally Kilroosk, the school regained its two teacher status

 
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