Athenry, County Galway - Ireland

Carnaun National School is situated about three miles outside the town of Athenry and about twelve miles from Galway City. It is a rural school surrounded by small fields with stone wall boundaries in which cattle, sheep and horses graze. Many of the children live on farms. The countryside is dotted with small patches of woodland and long wild hedgerows of whitethorn and blackthorn, which are used as stockproof fencing on the farms.
There are twenty-eight pupils in the school and two teachers, Finbarr and Anita, a remedial teacher Des, a secretary Vera and a caretaker Francie.
We have about 3 acres of school grounds in which we have a playing area, wildlife areas, flower and vegetable gardens all sown by the pupils.
We do much of our schoolwork through projects and include most of the school subjects in them. Our main project for the past few years was on Environmental Awareness. For this we have won many prizes and were awarded the European Green Flag last year. We did a lovely project on Butterflies with our friends in Glade Creek School, North Carolina, USA. I enjoyed this very much. “Irish emigration to America” was the name of another one also done with Glade Creek School.
A report on our work can be seen on the projects page of our school website
 http://homepage.eircom.net/~foregan
We get many visitors to the site and love to hear from people.
We also have many visitors to the school and we love to bring them on our School Heritage trail. We are often featured on TV and in the newspapers and have won many awards for our work.
Many foreign students come to the school and we have friends in France, Germany and Luxembourg.
We work hard in our school. There are eight pupils in the senior room and each one is a project leader at some time.                                                            

October 20th, 2001

Phone 091 844668
E-mail Carnaun.ias@eircom.net
Facts  2 Teachers: Principal: Mr Finbarr O'Regan, Vice Principal: Mrs Anita Coffey