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Moving to Roscommon

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  • #32
    helenmc2
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    Curraghboy is a lovely quiet village, two shops, PO, national school, pub... and only 7 miles from Athlone town


  • #33
    mike123!
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    Strokestown is the no1 secondary school in Roscommon.Very good school with a new state of the art 3 million extension. Good facilities and and well ran. Try stay away from living in the town itself tho, the surrounding area is very nice. The only famine museum in Ireland is there and has a mountain, the Shannon and numerous lakes within 5 miles! Apart from that not much else around the town.

    Best of luck with the move anyways!


  • #34
    MayoSalmon
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    Keep driving through Ros and come to Mayo. Easily best county in the Whest:pac::pac:


  • #35
    nice_guy80
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    mike123! wrote: »
    Strokestown is the no1 secondary school in Roscommon.Very good school with a new state of the art 3 million extension. Good facilities and and well ran. Try stay away from living in the town itself tho, the surrounding area is very nice. The only famine museum in Ireland is there and has a mountain, the Shannon and numerous lakes within 5 miles! Apart from that not much else around the town.

    Best of luck with the move anyways!

    did you just call sliabh bán a mountain?


  • #36
    Addle
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    mike123! wrote: »
    Strokestown is the no1 secondary school in Roscommon.

    No. 1 mixed school?
    Isn't the Convent in Roscommon town one of the top non fee paying secondary schools in the country? All girls though.


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  • #37
    X1R
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    did you just call sliabh bán a mountain?

    Try walking or running it............its mountainous! !!


  • #38
    yabadabado
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    Addle wrote: »
    No. 1 mixed school?
    Isn't the Convent in Roscommon town one of the top non fee paying secondary schools in the country? All girls though.

    I could be wrong but haven't seen strokestown on the list but the Convent in Roscommon town usually is in or around the top 100 in the country and always number 1 in County Roscommon.


  • #39
    Addle
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    yabadabado wrote: »
    I could be wrong but haven't seen strokestown on the list but the Convent in Roscommon town usually is in or around the top 100 in the country and always number 1 in County Roscommon.

    Top 5 more like.
    Sure how many secondary schools are there in Ireland?!
    I was very lucky to have gone to school there.


  • #40
    yabadabado
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    Addle wrote: »
    Top 5 more like.
    Sure how many secondary schools are there in Ireland?!
    I was very lucky to have gone to school there.

    Maybe top 5 non paying all girls schools but they have never afaik been that high on the lists
    I talking about the Sunday Times yearly lists.


  • #41
    nice_guy80
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    yabadabado wrote: »
    Maybe top 5 non paying all girls schools but they have never afaik been that high on the lists
    I talking about the Sunday Times yearly lists.

    and what do they know?


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  • #42
    yabadabado
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    and what do they know?

    Compared to who ?

    Its the only list of its kind in Ireland and its based on progression rate to college.So until there is a more comprehensive assessment of schools here I cant see what else we can use to judge schools.

    So where are people getting the information from that the convent is in Top 5?


  • #43
    nice_guy80
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    yabadabado wrote: »
    Compared to who ?

    Its the only list of its kind in Ireland and its based on progression rate to college.So until there is a more comprehensive assessment of schools here I cant see what else we can use to judge schools.

    So where are people getting the information from that the convent is in Top 5?

    progression to college is not a measure of how good a school is

    I mean, far less girls will go into apprenticeships than say, pupils from the Community College or CBS
    so it skews the figures


  • #44
    yabadabado
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    progression to college is not a measure of how good a school is

    I mean, far less girls will go into apprenticeships than say, pupils from the Community College or CBS
    so it skews the figures

    progression to college shouldn't be the only measure but it is definitely a factor.


    How would you measure it across the country ?

    BTW where did people get that the convent was top 5 ?any link to a report/article ?


  • #45
    Addle
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    yabadabado wrote: »
    BTW where did people get that the convent was top 5 ?any link to a report/article ?

    Just from memory, I can't find an article online, but I remember the piece mentioning sports results as well as progression to third level.

    Anyways, it's not important to the thread. The OP has a son.


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