Loreto Senior Primary School Website

History of our School

Scoil Mhuire Ógh I (Loreto Senior Primary School) is on the Crumlin Road in the parish of Dolphin's Barn.

There used to be a school in Reheboth Place called Dolphin's Barn National School. When new houses were built in the area they needed a bigger school.

The parish priest, Canon Deasy asked his sister, Mother Raphael to open a Loreto primary school for the girls of the neighbourhood.

The school opened in 1933 in the grounds of Carnclough House (our school gates still say Carn Cloch). The secondary school had been founded there three years earlier.

The staff and pupils of Dolphin's Barn National School moved into the new building. The teachers from that school taught the younger pupils downstairs while the older girls were educated in the upstairs classrooms by the Loreto sisters.

Many years later that school became overcrowded and in 1951 Scoil Mhuire Ógh II (Loreto Junior Primary School) was built behind our school.

Countless girls have passed through our school gates since it first opened almost seventy-five years ago including many mothers and grandmothers of present-day pupils.

Click here for Powerpoint History of the School