The official opening of the first school was performed on the 5th. of May 1856. We can only wonder at what that day must have been like as no written account of it has come down to us except a single entry in a Roll Book telling us when the official opening took place. Many questions have been left to our imaginations to answer. What must the celebrations have been like? How were the pupils dressed? How were the teachers dressed? What size were the classrooms? How many pupils first attended on the opening of the school ? Did all children of school going age go to school? At what age did the pupils leave primary school? The answers to some of these questions are to be found on the photograph of the first page of the roll book dated 1856, directly underneath this text. The crest contains our school's name "St. Oliver Plunkett National School". It also contains an image of the Templemoyle Bell and an open book. The bell symbolises our long history of involvement in educati