Five pupil school fights for survival [sligoweekender.ie]
- Published: 08 June 2010
PARENTS at a school which has only five pupils and one of them is leaving – are staging a last gasp effort to prevent its closure.
Unless there is a last minute reprieve, Annaghmore national school, which is about three miles from Gurteen, will close at the end of the present school year in about three weeks time.
The three-classroom school has been in existence for nearly half a century, having been built in 1963. It replaced an older school, built in the previous century.
Up until about 10 years ago the school had around 50 to 60 pupils. But in recent years numbers have fallen away drastically.
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