Scoil Uí Cheithearnaigh is an Irish-teaching national school in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. The school houses around 150-165 pupils, and seven teachers, and its site comprises nine classrooms, two offices, a hall, a library, and three playgrounds.
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History
Scoil Uí Cheithearnaigh was founded in 1989, with nine pupils, before expanding into Society Street premises, where it ocucpied a four-classroom site with two playgrounds. It started off with just one house with just nine pupils(now has around 165 pupils), it expanded to Society St with two playgrounds, an office and around 4 classrooms. It moved to its current premises in 2005. The school has won an abundance of prizes throughout the years including areas such as Gaelic Football, Hurling, Quizzes(The Credit Quiz, Conradh na Gaeilge and The Garda Siochana Quiz), recently, the school won its firstGreen Flag, an award for a clean school.
Location
Scoil Uí Cheithearnaigh is located near to two other secondary schools: Garbally College (boys secondary school), and Ard Scoil Mhuire (girls secondary school). SUC is close Portiuncla Hospital and St Josephs Place, Ballinasloe. The old location was split up into two buildings with two playgrounds, with the use of the Ballinasloe Town hall as a school hall.