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Stair na ScoileScoil Bhride is dedicated to Saint Brigid. We honour Saint Brigid on the first day of February each year, through hymns, prayers, stories and art work. Early documentary references indicate that there was a school at Crossmahon in 1826. The commissioners of Irish Education Inquiry for that year state that there was a school held in the apartments of a slated house at Crossmahon. The master was Jeremiah Cronin and twenty eight Roman Catholics attended. There was also a school in the nearby townland of Mayfield. The master Michael O' Driscoll taught twenty four pupils in the kitchen of a dwelling house.
Opening Ceremony of the new school in 1983 The new school was officially opened by Mr. Jim O' Keefe,T.D., Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. Concelebrated mass was offered by the Parish Priest of Bandon, Archdeacon J.J. O' Sullivan and Rev. T.J. O' Sullivan who was past chairperson of the Board of Management. Other priests included Fr. Michael Cahalane,C.C., Fr. Pat Walsh, Fr. Christy Walsh and Rev. Joe Coughlan. Many other public representatives attended as well as officials from the Dept. of Education.
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