Welcome to our school’s website. We hope to give you a glimpse of our school life and to keep you up to date with our latest news and events.
Our school is situated in the village of Watergrasshill, 10 miles from Cork city. We are a co-educational school with sixteen Mainstream Teachers, two Special Classes and six Special Education Teachers. Currently we have 426 children attending the school.

Mission Statement

In Watergrasshill we strive to make our National School a place of education and development, where each child is cherished and encouraged to reach his/her potential.

School News

Science Week

Mr. Murphy's 6th class conducting an experiment for Science Week! Also, Ava Warren in this class drew a fantastic picture for Science Week! Maith thú Ava! In Ms. English's 3rd class, the children had lots of fun shaking cream to turn it into butter and...

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Best of luck!!!

Best of luck to the Watergrasshill Ladies Football in the county final on Sunday especially our past pupils!

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Shane Hegarty – Author

Thanks to the inspiring author Shane Hegarty for chatting this morning to Mr. Griffin's 4th class. He was brilliant and so engaging with the class along with reading a chapter of one of his books. As he said 'inspiration can come from anywhere....

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