Scoil Náisiúnta Muire gan Smál, Cartown

Our School Today

Nestled in Cartown, a little area in the heart of Termonfechin parish, south Co. Louth, S. N. Muire gan Smál is a Catholic co-educational school with 244 pupils in 8 classes from Junior Infants to Sixth Class. The school enjoys a rural setting surrounded by nature and open countryside. At the same time, the school benefits from its proximity to Drogheda and all the facilities the town has to offer.

The photo above shows a front view of the school taken from the teachers' car park. The building in the foreground is now the sixth class room and was the original building of the two teacher school built in 1956

The photo on the right is an aerial view of the school taken in 2005 as the school was nearing the end of its extension. It illustrates the true size of our school which has clearly grown extensively over the years.

Snapshots of School Life

Please use the buttons below the image on your right to navigate through a slide show of some typical days in the life of pupils at Scoil Náisiúnta Muire gan Smál....and enjoy!

Study by Kate Cunningham 6th class '07-'08 of the Growth in Pupil Numbers of Cartown N.S.

The graph on the right, drawn up by 6th class student, Kate Cunningham shows the marked growth in the size of Scoil Muire gan Smál, Cartown over the decades, particularly in the last decade studied, 1997 to 2007, and charts the school's growth from a 2 teacher school until the mid- eighties to its current status as a ten teacher school catering for well over 200 pupils in 2009.