Brownesgrove school is situated on the Tuam-Dunmore  road and stands on a site that is roughly  half way between these towns.
                   The school opened on the 1st of
November 1880. According to an inspector's report there were over a hundred houses within a half mile radius of the school. The school had one teacher- a Mr Fitzgibbon. At times there over two hundred
pupils on the rolls. The school became a two teacher school when Mary Fitzgibbon was appointed.
                  The  Browne family of Brownesgrove provided the funding to build the school.. It was  a stone building which was slated and mortar
Plastered. The furniture consisted of eight ten foot desks. There  were outside toilets.
                 The salary of the teacher  was £34 per annum. The Browne family paid £20 of this and the remaining £14 was collected by  the  pupils. Last year money that came available to the school from a bequest of the late Thomas Browne of Brownesgrove  was used to buy two computers for the school.
               The school was extended in the 1930's and became a three teacher school before reverting back to a two teacher school which it continues to be.
               In the last thirty years considerable improvements have been made. The school has been re-roofed, ceilings lowered, new heating system installed, new windows and door fitted, new furniture provided and floor coverings replaced. The Board of Management has applied for an extension to the school. In the not to distant future this extension will provide a room for the Learning Support Purposes, a Library area, a Storage area and an Administrative area.
                It is worth recalling that another  school once existed between Dunmore and Tuam. This was Sylane school in the village of Sylanenagran. The ruins were to be seen in a field on the left hand side as you travel from Tuam to Dunmore. This ruin was flattened to the ground a few years ago. This school opened ten years before Brownesgrove    and had up to seventy pupils. With the opening of Strawberry Hill N.S
Sylane could not survive. It closed in 1898. Strawberry Hill N.S closed in 1985.