placenamesCorbally
An Corrbhaile
Corbally, locally called Corballa, has an educational history extending from a famine-era national school to a community-funded replacement.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Corrbhaile · Irish · main form · validated name
- Corbally · English · main form
- Corballa · English · main form · local name
Place & story
The nineteenth-century school
Corballa National School traces its first recorded school to 1845, close to the present site. By 1870 it enrolled 228 pupils, although average attendance was only 55. A replacement building was completed in 1882 and gained another classroom in 1909. That school continued in use until 1980; the school’s own history identifies the old building across the road from its successor. [2]
Amalgamation and a new building
Corballa and Carrowgarry schools amalgamated in 1968 after numbers declined at Carrowgarry. A new Corballa building opened in November 1980, with four classrooms and a general-purpose room. Local fundraising supplied one ninth of its £110,000 cost. The opening was performed by Agriculture Minister Ray MacSharry, with Sally Gallagher serving as principal and Fr Martin Halloran chairing the board of management. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Sligo
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Civil parish
- Castleconor
- Coordinates
- 54.16028, -9.05640 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414441 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Corbally. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Our History — Corballa National School · Corballa National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.