In Lisronagh National School...

We endeavour to:

• Promote the happiness and confidence of each child.
• Develop, to the best of their abilities, the literacy and numeracy skills of each pupil.
• Foster an enquiring mind
• Encourage a sense of respect for self and others
• Promote honesty, independence, sociability, responsibility and a sense of enterprise.
• Instill a love of local and national community.
• Efforts will be made to promote, both individually and collectively, the professional and personal development of teachers through staff development programmes.
• The involvement of parents will be encouraged through home/school contacts and through their involvement in the Lisronagh National School Parents’ Association.
• We will endeavour to enhance the self-esteem of everyone in the school community.
• Gender equality amongst the teachers and pupils will be promoted.
• Déanfaimid iarracht Gaeilge a labhairt.

While the exact date of establishment of Lisronagh N.S. is unknown, there is mention of a parish school house in documents dated 1850. The first school in Lisronagh was a girls’ school. The school was situated in the present Church car park and it remained on this site, (by this stage co-ed), until 1963.

The “new school”, opened in 1963, moved to a new site beside the old school. 1993 saw the addition of a third classroom and third teacher. Lisronagh N.S. became a four teacher school in 2002.

In 2006 the school purchased some adjoining land from Pat O’Mara, providing the school with a purpose built playing pitch. The school underwent a big transformation in 2008/2009, with the building of four new classrooms and extensive modernisation of the older building, bringing learning at Lisronagh N.S. into the 21 st century.