HISTORY
Scoil Moibhi National School is a small four teacher school in Milverton, Skerries, Co Dublin. It was formerly called Milverton National School. The School was built in 1902 and opened on the 23rd May 1903 under the principalship of Mrs Mary Reilly. Scoil Moibhi celebrated 100 years of education in May 2003.
A Centenary Booklet "Milverton School - Celebrating 100 Years" is available at the school should wish to have a look or pick up a copy. A pdf copy can be obtained from the webmaster (file size 66.6mb)
Prior to this, the local school (known as the Grange with registers dating back to 1857) was located down in the Black Hills. The school was quite old and had around sixty pupils.
Upon moving to the current site, there was only one building and the yard was divided into two so the girls and boys wouldn't play together. When the school got some funding it was decided to knock down the wall that was keeping the pupils apart and an additional classroom was added, along with a grass area.
In October 1960 a two day strike was staged by the pupils of Milverton School to highlight to the Department of Education the need to improve the school building. Parents felt that the school was unsafe, classrooms overcrowded and that there where no sanitary conditions, all this causing a lot of ill health to the children.
In March 1961 questions were raised in Dail Eireann by Mr Dan Desmond, Labour Party to the then Minister for Education Dr Patrick Hillery, Fianna Fail regarding the proposed extension and restruction of Milverton Primary School. See link below for further details.
http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/1961/03/15/00029.asp
'Saint Movee or Saint Movoo, I’ll plough this furrow before I go!'
for more historical infomation and The Legend of St Movee's Well click on the following link: http://indigo.ie/~skerries/history/lochist/42movee.html
In 2005 the pupils of the School designed the first crest for the optional uniform. O'Neills Sportware looked at all the artwork and created the current crest which depicts 'The Ploughman and The School'. The uniform was available in 2006 for all students to avail of through Pat O'Farrell Uniforms, Swords contact (01) 8139714 for information.
