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Welcome to the website of Scoil Naomh Mhuire, Boher.  We hope that this site will be of great benefit to our  parents, pupils, guardians and friends. As time goes by  we plan to increase and enlarge this site.

It is our aim that your child will be very happy in our   school and will achieve his/her full potential as a person   and member of their community.
This website will give a glimpse of our busy and varied   life here at Scoil Naomh Mhuire, Boher. We would like   you to browse our website to get a taste of the Cooley   Peninsula. These pages detail our work and life here.

Ethos of Scoil Naomh Mhuire, Boher

"The curriculum of Scoil Naomh Mhuire recognizes the unique nature of each child, as it is expressed in each child's personality, intelligence and potential for development. It is designed to maximise each child's potential and to nurture the child in all dimensions of his/her life - spiritual, moral, emotional, imaginative, aesthetic, religious, social and physical."

The three general aims of primary education are:

To enable the child to live a full life as a child and to realise his or her potential as a unique individual
To enable the child to develop as a social being through living and co-operating with others and so contibute to the good of society
To prepare the child for further education and lifelong learning

Day to Day

Greenore is a small, friendly community located in the beautiful northeast of Ireland. Our school is a rural primary school situated beside Our Lady Star of the Sea Church.  The Curriculum consists of Irish, English, Mathematics, Religion, SESE, Physical Education and Visual Arts. There are 4 classes, 4 Mainstream teachers, 1 Permanent SET, 1 Permanent jobshare SET and 3 SNA's. School opens at 8:50, classes begin at 9:00 a.m. and finishes at 2:40 p.m, Infants finish at 1:40pm. 

All absences of 20+ days must be reported to Tusla.  Please email the school with your child's absence and reason for the absence as soon as is convenient for you but please note that the Roll is taken at 13:30 and cannot be edited after this time. 

A letter will be sent home when your child has reached 15 days absent.

It is extremely important that we have up-to-date contact details for all parents and guardians. If you regularly receive emails from school, there is no need to take any action. If, however, you have changed your phone number and/or email address recently, please email the school with your updated contact information as soon as possible.

Contact Information

Address:                                                            

Muchgrange NS

Muchgrange,

Greenore,

Co Louth

A91 DK09

School Office   - 042-9373604

E-mail           - muchgrangens@gmail.com

Mr Joseph McCrink - Principal

Ms. Maria Murphy- Acting Deputy Principal

Teaching Staff 2024/2025

Ms. Reynolds              - 5th & 6th classes

Ms. Hearty                - 3rd & 4th classes

Ms. McGuinness            - 1st & 2nd classes

Ms. Maria Murphy         - Junior & Senior Infants

Mr Joe McCrink            - SET   

Ms. Fahy/Ms. Haran       - SET                             

Ms. Grainne Waller        - SNA

Ms. Anna Dunlevy-White  - SNA

Ms. Andrea McDonald     - SNA

Ms. Sarah McGarry       - SNA 

Ancillary Staff

Tina Malone

Margaret McCumiskey        

Board of Management

The school is run by the Board of Management which consists of the following:

Chairperson                                     -  Canon Malachy Conlon P.P.

Secretary                                       -  Joseph McCrink

Teacher Rep.                                  -  Maria Murphy

Treasurer & Patron Nominee         -  Bridie Magee

Parents' Nominee                          -  David O'Reilly

Parents' Nominee.                         -  Teresa O'Connor

Parish Nominee.                           -  Anne Larkin

Parish Nominee                            -  Oliver Murphy

Parents' Association

Chairperson:        Anne Hughes               

Secretary:          Ciara Thornton              

Joint Treasurer:    Deirdre Lynsey           

Joint Treasurer:    Claire Murphy             

Committee Member:  Maria McGrath

Committee Menber: Brenda Culligan

Committee Member:  Kate McGrath

Committee Member: Hanele Daly

Committee Member: Vivienne McElwaine

Committee Member: Lorna Long

                                  Muchgrange NS is a registered charity - No 20205251

Louth as a County Louth as a county is not all that ancient. It dates only from the time of the Anglo-Norman invasions. It was these invaders who drew the present boundaries of Co. Louth and who first used the term 'county'. Before, this land was divided into many principalities of different names - Cuailgne, Fir Rois, Muirthemhne etc. But the name of Louth itself is very old. Louth or Lugmed (as it was then spelt) was the name given by the ancient Celts to the land lying between the Boyne river and the Mourne Mts. Here dagda gave a subterranean palace to Lug (Lugmed) the sun god whose festival was on the first of August and in whose honour the yearly games of Lughnasa were held. (Lughnasa is now the Irish word for August). In the earliest ages the land belonged to Ulster.

Birth of Carlingford Lough At the peak of the Ice Age Louth was covered by hundreds of feet of ice while Carlingford Lough area was the terminus of a great glacier that stretched north-westwards across Armagh and Tyrone. Perhaps the dramatic effects of retreating ice still to be seen in the landscapes Carlingford Lough, a natural fjord formed by the effects of the retreating glacier.

Cúchulainn There are many legends of Co. Louth but perhaps the most famous concerns Cúchulainn and the Brown Bull of Cooley. The Táin Bó Chuailgne is a long saga telling the story of how Queen Maeve of Connacht sent her warriors to capture 'The Brown Bull of Cooley'. Cúchulainn defended Ulster against her armies. A gap in the Cooley mountains known as 'Maeve's Gap' is reportedly to be the place where her army crossed into Cooley. As we all know The Brown Bull returned home and unfortunately died from exhaustion after his escape from Connaught.

Long Woman's Grave Conn O'Hanlon, a local chieftain, on his deathbed called his sons and requested them to divide his land equally between them. The elder son Conn was not faithful to his promise. He brought his younger brother Lorcan to a high point on The Cooley Mountains so that he could possess all of the land that he could see. However he took him to a lug or hollow, from where he could see nothing but rocks. Dissapointed, he set off abroad and became a prosperous merchant. Falling in love with a Spanish princess the pair eloped and returned to Ireland. Appartently she was seven foot tall and locals claim strangely dressed. He bragged that he owned all the land from a certain point in The Cooley Mountains. Intrigued they set off and on arriving at the lug the shock of seeing nothing all around her was too much for her and she fell down dead on the spot. Lorcan himself drowned in a nearby bog. Digging a grave, they buried her, each person throwing a stone on the grave to build a mound or a cáirn. this is known locally as the 'Lug Bhan Fhada'.