THERE was music, a student performance and open classrooms when O'Connell Public held its 150th anniversary celebrations last Saturday.
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Ian Browne, who researched the history of the school in anticipation of this weekend's events, said an O'Connell school existed in the grounds of St Thomas church on Beaconsfield Road in the village from around 1849.
In 1874, John Black, who owned a mill below the current school on the Fish River, gave about one acre of land - which did not front the Bathurst Road - for a new school on what is now Blacks Mill Lane.
The building was completed in December 1876 and Mr Black sold more land to the school in 1907 for £20, giving O'Connell Public access to the Bathurst Road.
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