Roll of Honour

School staff members who served in Ballyoughter National School are listed below. 

The earliest record of a school in the area is from 1824 when the teacher was Denis Synnot and the school building was located on the church grounds.

The first teacher appointed to the multi-denominational school built with funds secured from the Earl of Courtown was Alice O’Neill in 1872.

The first teacher appointed to the official state sanctioned school built in 1889 was Mary Tugman (née Brennan). She was followed by Michael O’Sullivan for a brief period of 2 years. Legend has it that he travelled from County Kerry on horseback to take up his position. He is recorded as a boarder in the Whitty Household on the 1901 census returns for Clonmore.

Julia Lawlor (Brennan) has the distinction of being the longest serving teacher in the school’s history for her service spanning 46 years from 1907 to 1953. This record is not likely to be broken any time soon.

Patrick Sheehan holds the record as longest serving Principal covering the period from 1938 to 1980.

Bernie Kavanagh became the first non-teaching staff member at Ballyoughter National School when appointed as school secretary.

The school was allocated its first SNA position at the turn of the Millenium and Yvonne Ryan was appointed to the position.

Name Role From To
Denis Synnot
Teacher
1824
Unknown
Alice O’Neill
Teacher
01-03-1872
31-05-1877
Eliza O’Neill
Teacher
01-06-1877
17-12-1886
Mary Tugman (née Brennan)
Teacher
01-01-1887
01-09-1899
Michael O’Sullivan
Teacher
18-09-1899
31-09-1901
Margaret McGloin
Principal
01-10-1901
01-10-1938
Julia Lawlor (née Brennan)
Teacher
01-04-1907
31-12-1953
Patrick Sheehan
Principal
03-10-1938
30-06-1980
Kathleen Eivers (née Lawlor)
Teacher
01-01-1954
17-11-1979
Mary Brown
Teacher
18-11-1979
31-01-2012
Frank Doyle
Principal
01-07-1980
31-07-2011
Bernie Kavanagh
Secretary
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
Yvonne Ryan
Secretary/SNA
01-12-1999
01-12-2008
Ann Tighe (née Kehoe)
Secretary
01-12-1997
30-11-1999
Martina Keogh
Secretary
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
Kathy Delaney (née Carter)
Secretary
2003
01-05-2008
Elizabeth Kavanagh
Deputy Principal
01-08-2005
Present
Annette Guinan
Secretary/SNA
02-05-2008
Present
Lorraine Dempsey
Principal
01-08-2011
06-12-2019
Michelle Richardson
Teacher
Aisling Chawke
Teacher
01/09/2016
Present
Lisa Devlin
SNA
01/09/2017
Present
Mandy Byrne
Secretary
2018
30-04-2019
Maeve Roberts
Secretary
01-05-2019
Present
Pádraig O’Connor
Principal
06-01-2020
Present

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