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Carrig
National School

Carrig National school is situated a few miles from Birr and offers children a warm and family like atmosphere. Many different projects enrich their school days such as sports, speech & drama, foreign languages, art and much more.

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Rated 5/5 by 500 Students

WELCOME

Carrig
National School

Carrig National school is situated a few miles from Birr and offers children a warm and family like atmosphere. Many different projects enrich their school days such as sports, speech & drama, foreign languages, art and much more.

Rated 5/5 by 500 Students

Tony Sampson’s retirement

With great sadness we bid our Principal Tony Sampson farewell as he retired after about 20 years of being a wonderful, inspiring principal and teacher of Carrig National School.

Thank you so much for all your hard work and your kindness and dedication.

Siobhan Broderick’s retirement

With great sadness we bid our deputy principal Siobhan Broderick farewell as she retired after many years of being a wonderful, inspiring deputy principal and teacherv of Carrig National School.

Thank you so much for all your hard work and your kindness and dedication.

New Principal

We are delighted to welcome our new principal
Mr. Medran Shelly

Extracurricular activities

Your child will be able to attend extra activities such as Speech & Drama, Swimming, different Sports

ASD Unit

Newly built ASD Unit in our school.
All special needs children are welcome.

Welcome to Carrig National School

Carrig National School is a co-educational, catholic primary school which strives to provide a well-ordered, caring, happy and secure atmosphere where the intellectual, spiritual, physical and cultural needs of the pupils are identified and addressed.

Furthermore it has due recognition for all other religions.
We strive to offer many different experiences.

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We have many different activities!

Our school tries to give each child different experiences.
Only recently we were planting trees in our school yard.
Other activities would be speech and drama, different kind of sports, german, and much more.

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Arts & Craft

Our pupils engage in a huge variety of art and craft activities. They take part in local and national art competitions and have been very successful at both levels. We undertake construction of models integrated with many subject areas, in all classes.

See our art & craft page

History

In 2011 Carrig National School celebrated it’s 100 years anniversary.

The founder was Catherine Mahon (1869 – 1948).

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