- May 12, 1884, Miss Maria Lally was appointed principal of Attymon Female School. By this time the school needed repairs, had no table, no teacher's desk or maps of the world. The manager, Rev. P. Cannon, PP, asked the Commissioners for funds to repair the ceiling and drain the grounds --.
--The arrival of Mr. Dan Daly NT (from Cork) on August 10, 1896 greatly improved the situation and he was promoted to principal teacher of the Male School with an annual salary of £80. School attendance improved and 'admonishments' ceased --
- By 1906, the condition of the school building (which housed two schools --male and female) was reaching crisis proportions. The Manager, Rev. J. Cahalan requested the National Commissioners of Education for a grant for the building of a new school which would amalgamate the two schools. The request was turned down but Rev. Cahalan was a dogged campaigner who continued to pester the National Commissioners of Education --
- Finally on May 25, 1907. Mr. S. Mahon, School Inspector, arrived to assess the situation. His report stated that a new school should be built on the same site. However Mrs. Quinn (formerly Maria Lally), Principal of Attymon Female School, was reluctant to agree to the amalgamation and it took Rev. Cahalan until July 18, 1907 to persuade her to agree. Around this time Clooncah House was demolished and the stones were used to build the present school when work began in late 1908 by a builder named Cahill from Ahascragh. The two roomed amalgamated school was blessed and opened in 1910 to the great joy of parents.