Crosshaven. Co. Cork. Ireland. Email: ColaisteMuire.ias@eircom.net Phone: + 353 21 4831604 Fax: + 353 21 4831604
Coláiste Muire (Realt na Mara) - Our Lady Star of the Sea was opened in 1947. When the school opened there were approximately one hundred students attending, thaught by seven Presentation sisters and one lay person. Today there are three hundred and fifty students in the school, and thirty teachers. Coláiste Muire was an all girls school until 1969, when 18 boys started here. Prior to this, boys of the locality had to travel to Cork city to receive a second level education. In 1975 a new primary school for girls was built nearby. This is called Scoil Bhríde and many of the students there go on to do their second level education in Coláiste Muire.
	At Coláiste Muire, Réalt na Mara, we aim to provide an educational service which meets the needs of the local community in a changing environment. We believe that education involves the development of the whole person. Our educational service is directed towards the intellectual, emotional, moral, spiritual, aesthetic, physical and vocational development of students in a Christian content. This is achieved through the many educational programmes we have on offer, which are detailed here.