Boherbue Comprehensive School

Boherbue Comprehensive School
Bóthar Buí
Location
Boherbue

Cork
,
P51 TK28

Ireland

52°09′33″N 9°03′45″W / 52.1591°N 9.0624°W / 52.1591; -9.0624
Information
Founded1973
Enrollment518 (2024)
Websiteboherbuecs.com

Boherbue Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Boherbue, County Cork, Ireland.

History

This school was opened in 1973 as a co-educational, non-selective post-primary school. The term 'comprehensive' was current at that time and the curriculum of the school combined what were formally regarded as the 'secondary' subjects with the 'technical' subjects.[citation needed]

Sport

Gaelic football is the most popular sport within the school[citation needed] and it competes in the All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship.[citation needed] In 1992, the school were runners-up in the All-Ireland Senior Vocational School Championship and in 1998 it won the All-Ireland Junior Vocational School Championship. In 2001, the school won the All Ireland Ladies Senior Football Vocational Championship. Sports such as basketball and hurling are also played at the school.[citation needed]

Past pupils

References

  1. ↑ Subject Inspection: History - Boherbue Comprehensive School (PDF), Department of Education, April 2025, p. Boherbue Comprehensive School is an inter-denominational co-educational post-primary school under the joint trusteeship of the Diocese of Kerry and the Minister for Education. Student enrolment at the time of the inspection [Dec 2024] was 518 students, retrieved 29 August 2025 – via assets.gov.ie
  2. ↑ Leogue, Joe (25 August 2011). "Rugby fever hits Ballyhooly and Kanturk". Irish Independent. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  3. ↑ O'Halloran, Marie (9 February 2020). "Election 2020: Michael Moynihan (Fianna Fáil)". The Irish Times. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Hussey, Aisling (13 November 2013). "Boherbue school takes YouTube by storm". Irish Farmers Journal. Retrieved 6 October 2023.