| Cortober Corr an Tobair
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| Motto: 'round hill of the spring well' | |
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Cortober
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Roscommon / County Leitrim |
| Elevation | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | M941997 |
| Website | www.carrickonshannon.ie |
Cortober (Irish: Corr an Tobair, meaning "round hill of the spring well"). Cortober is a townland in the counties of Roscommon and Leitrim Carrick-on-Shannon and is divided between the River Shannon. At the north-eastern extremity of the Parish. Bounded on the north by the Parish of Tumna and River Shannon, on the east by the River Shannon, on the south by the townland of Cordrehead and Killukin and on the west by Mullaghmore.
A St. George Estate Rental map shows for 1768 shows that the Hollywell House was then occupied by small cabins that surrounded the original 1623 fort of Liberty Hill, owned by Harris, Jones and King Families. Another Rental of Charles Manners St. George Estate, dated 1842, gives a list of some early residents of Cortober townland, including Andersons, Armstrongs, Backhouses and Bournes. These St.George Rentals confirms that Cortober was an integral part of the family land holdings.
In 1942 Ireland was emerging as a new nation. The country had experienced the Civil War, the Econimc War, and Europe was being ravaged by the Second World War slowly an infant education system was finding its feet. Here and there were schools founded and managed by people who were imbued with that pioneering spirit and generosity of mind which is so much part of the educator. At scholastically brilliant. Outside the larger towns like Sligo and Longford there was no Secondary School available to the Carrick-on-Shannon area. Kathleen Lynch felt that there was a need for the establishment of a Secondary School to cater boys of neighbouring districts of North Roscommon and South Leitrim. On the 8th September 1942 Kathleen Lynch, she was Mary Kathleen Mulhern of Drumlumman, opened the Rosary High School for boys at Cortober, on the Roscommon side of the Bridge as well as South Leitrim. The opening was performed by the Bishop of Elphin Most Rev. Dr. Edward Doorly.
The first students of Rosary High School were:Joe O'Driscoll, Jim Farrell, Jim Flynn, Kevin Herity, Sean Mulvey, Gabriel McNamara, Fonsie O'Driscoll, Seamus McLoughlin, Sean McLoughlin, Eamon Taylor, T.J.McKeon, Paddy Guckian, Owen McDonald, John Conway, Maureen Conway