Kesh Primary School is a Controlled School, owned and managed by the Western Education and Library Board.  It admits girls and boys aged from 4 to 11.  It is situated in the rural village of Kesh in Co Fermanagh, where the main industries are farming and tourism.

 

Today, the school has 9 modern classrooms, 1 room for music and outreach services , a large hall, a library with integrated computer suite, a rotunda, 3 resource areas and excellent kitchen and dining facilities.  There are extensive grounds which contain flowers, shrubs and trees and we also have an environment garden with willow tunnels, picnic tables and various activity areas.  There is separate activity playground comprising of a rope-bridge, climbing wall, low tight-rope and a challenge climbing frame. The school also has a full sized games pitch. There are 2 all-weather playgrounds—the largest is divided into a painted games area and a fully lined netball court; with the other marked out as small football pitch. The school is well resourced in terms of teaching materials and computers and laptops.

 

There are 8 members of teaching staff; 7 class teachers and a non-teaching Principal.

 

The name ‘Kesh’ comes from the Irish ‘Ceis’ which means a wicker crossing place - the wicker crossing having been replaced by the stone bridge which spans Kesh River today.  The earliest written evidence of Kesh is noted in Hill’s Plantation of Ulster (1610), where it states “a small village, Cash, is situated some two miles from the Castle (Crevenish)”.  The school itself was built in 1865 and comprised of a single stone building; some of the stone was used to build the wall at the front of our new school.