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This school was an Erasmus Smith institution and was established in 1820. In 1836 there were 67 Protestants and 81 Catholics at the school 73 of whom were males and 75 females.

One of the school's most important pupils was Thomas Hunter who was the founder of one of America's top female colleges, the Hunter college in New York. Today the school is run as a function room for various events.

 

Erasmus Smyth School

Ardglass National School 1863 Ardglass National School

The school was at the botttom of Hill Street

St. Annes School

St. Anne's Openning Day, August 1951

This school was built on August 1st 1951

 

ARDGLASS — in the presence of a large gathering of clergy and laity, the Most Rev. Dr. Mageean, Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor, at Ardglass on Monday dedicated St. Anne’s, the first voluntary intermediate school in County Down.
Built of Coalisland red brick with stone facing, the school, which will accommodate 150 pupils and a staff of five teachers, provides, in addition to ordinary classrooms, special rooms for the teaching of light craft work and arts, physics and chemistry, rural science and domestic science, woodwork and metal work. And there is a gymnasium.

The site? Two of the eleven-and-a-half acres will be devoted to agriculture, with vegetable and flower gardens attached, and lawns and playing fields for the boys and girls.

The Bishop said that this noble building, adding much to the amenities of the town and district, reflected the highest credit on the architects, Messrs P. & B. Gregory, and the contractors, Messrs P. Taggart & Sons. The cost was pretty high. The site was acquired at the reasonable sum of £1,250, but the school and equipment would cost approximately £57,000. Of this the Government would contribute 65 per cent, or £37,000, while the parishes it would serve would contribute the remaining £20,000, in the proportion of Killough and Kilclief £5,000 each and Ardglass and Dunsford £10,000. This school was later used as the local primary school when St. Joesph's school was not large enough for the student population.
The new staff for St Annes

Dunsford National School 1841

Dunsford National School

This was the first national school in the area.