History of Scoil Chlochair Mhuire
The Poor Servants of the Mother of God arrived in Carrigtwohill on June 21st, 1875, at the request of the parish priest Fr. Seymour made to Mother Magdalen Taylor, the foundress of the Congregation. Soon after their arrival the Sisters began their apostolic work.
They visited the sick in their homes, took charge of the Sodalities, and cared for the church and the church linen. The Sisters lived in the homes of the Barry and Ahern families until a convent was built. When the school mistress (Miss Murphy) pf the National School died suddenly Fr, Seymour begged the Sisters to take over the teaching. Mother Magdalen was reluctant to allow the Sisters teach in the school; but gradually she had come to understand the value of education as the only way for the people to escape from their dreadful poverty.
Two Sisters began teaching in 1880 in the school in Baryscourt built by Fr. Seymour in 1856. The following year one Sister was appointed the first principal of the Primary School and two were appointed as Assistant Teachers. For over eighty years this school catered for all the needs of the youth of the parish.
In 1937 the girls were transferred to a new school on the main street. Sr. Celestine Condon, a Tipperary woman, a trained teacher, and a late vocation to the SMG Congregation was the first principal and held the post until 1956. Academic excellence has always been characteristic of the school. Today past pupils work in the fields of medicine, education, science, research mission fields of the Third World as well as in the home where they hand on the faith that was carefully nurtured in school.