THE current Presentation College secondary school building opened in Tuam in 1972. Presentation College Tuam bids farewellCurrylea community to gather for celebration on May 26A ‘School of Common Sense’ has been a guiding principle of the Presentation Sisters throughout 188 years of educating young girls in Tuam, with a celebration of the school planned next weekend ahead of its closure this summer. Hundreds of students and teachers, past and present, along with past principals and friends of Presentation College are expected to gather next Friday, May 26, to bid ‘Farewell to Currylea’. The day will begin at 3.45pm with a walkabout of the Currylea campus, which will become a campus of High Cross College from September when the Pres amalgamates with Mercy Secondary School as a co-educational facility. Speaking to The Tuam Herald this week, Sr Dorothy Somers, the first principal of the Currylea school, which opened in 1973, reminisced on a long and proud tradition of serving Tuam and a wide hinterland…

Source: The Herald May 17, 2023 19:32 UTC