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SCOIL MOCHUA CELBRIDGE CO. KILDARE
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  • About our School
    • Introduction
    • Our History
    • Philosophy
    • Latest News
    • Uniform and Crest
    • Policies >
      • All Policies
    • Staff
    • School Calendar 2022/23
    • SSE
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  • for kids
    • Internet Safety for Kids
    • Well-being
    • School Garden
    • Useful links
  • for Parents
    • Enrolment 2023
    • Standardised tests
    • Incoming Junior Infants 2022
    • Well-being
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  • School Life
    • READATHON 2023
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  • History of Celbridge
    • How Celbridge Got Its Name
    • William Conolly
    • Castletown
    • The Mill
    • The Obelisk
    • Celbridge Workhouse
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    • Oakley Park
    • Arthur Guinness
    • Celbridge Abbey
    • Lyons Estate
    • Daniel O'Connell
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    • Tom Sands Remembers
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The Abbey National School

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  • The Abbey was the first National school to be erected in Celbridge in 1849. It consisted of two classrooms, one for males and the other for females. Each school was completely independent and each had its own playground, dry toilets and fuel shed.

  • The school was opened in the aftermath of the Great famine and at that time the struggle for existence took priority over education. Many children attended school irregularly and tended to drift into employment at an early age.

  • During the period 1870 - 1880 some of the boys spent only half of each day in school and worked during the other half in the local mill. They were known officiallly as "half time pupils".

  • Most parents could not afford to buy school books and written work was done on slates using slate pencils.

  • The Abbey School is now known as  Scoil na Mainistreach.

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  • School Life
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    • intel solar for schools
    • Music >
      • School Musical 2023
      • School Musical 2019
      • School Musical 2016
    • Active School
    • Digital School
  • History of Celbridge
    • How Celbridge Got Its Name
    • William Conolly
    • Castletown
    • The Mill
    • The Obelisk
    • Celbridge Workhouse
    • Abbey National School
    • Oakley Park
    • Arthur Guinness
    • Celbridge Abbey
    • Lyons Estate
    • Daniel O'Connell
    • Saint Mochua
    • Tom Sands Remembers
    • Interesting Facts