Editing Carrickmacross (section)

==Education==
[[File:Carrickmacross St. Joseph's Church Guests arrive to a Wedding.jpg|upright|thumbnail|St. Joseph's RC Church, Carrickmacross]]

===Primary schools===
There are three primary schools in Carrickmacross:
* St. Joseph's Boys National School, situated near St. Macartan's Villas, is an all-boys [[National school (Ireland)|national school]] which was previously run by the Patrician Brothers.
* Bunscoil Lughaidh Naofa, which is in Cloughvalley, is an all-girls school, was run by the St. Louis nuns who came to Carrickmacross in 1888.
* Scoil Rois is a [[Gaelscoil]] (an [[Irish language]]-medium school) in Carrickmacross. It is a mixed school that, having moved from the Convent Avenue, now occupies newer premises built across from Bunscoil Lughaidh Naofa.

===Secondary schools===
The Patrician High School (or PHS) is one of three secondary schools in Carrickmacross.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.patricianhighschool.ie | website = patricianhighschool.ie | title = Patrician High School website}}</ref> It was set up by the Patrician Brothers, and was previously situated next to the Church on O'Neills street; that building is now the Scout Hall. It moved to Rockdaniel Road in 1970, and a new extension was opened in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.patricianhighschool.ie/School/HistoryofOurSchool.aspx | website = patricianhighschool.ie| title = History of Our School | access-date = 19 February 2020 }}</ref> As of 2015 it had approximately 500 pupils enrolled.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Inspection-Reports-Publications/Whole-School-Evaluation-Reports-List/report5_64750G.pdf | publisher = Department of Education | website = education.ie | title = Whole-School Evaluation Report - Patrician High School, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan | date = 15 January 2015 | access-date = 18 February 2020}}</ref>

Inver College, called the TEC by students and townspeople due to its being a technological school, is a mixed school situated on the [[Castleblayney]] Road.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.invercollege.ie | website = invercollege.ie | title = Inver College website}}</ref> As of 2019, it had approximately 320 students enrolled.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.gov.ie/en/school-report/37qkox-/ | publisher = Department of Education | website = gov.ie | title = Subject Inspection Report - Inver College, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan | date = 11 February 2019 | access-date = 3 March 2022 }}</ref> Inver College won the U16 VEC GAA County Championship for the second consecutive year in January 2011.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

St. Louis Convent is an all-girls secondary school set up by the St. Louis nuns in the 19th century. There were approximately 570 pupils enrolled in the school as of 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.education.ie/ga/Foilseach%C3%A1in/Tuairisc%C3%AD-Cigireachta-Foilseach%C3%A1in/Cigireachta%C3%AD-%C3%81bhar-Tuarasc%C3%A1lacha-Liosta/64760J_Subject%20Inspection_6542_20180223.pdf | publisher = Department of Education | website = education.ie | title = Subject Inspection Report - Saint Louis Secondary Schoo, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan | date = 7 December 2017 | access-date = 18 February 2020}}</ref> The school was set up in honour of St. Louis ([[Louis IX of France]]). The motto of the school is ''Ut Sint Unum'', Latin for 'that they may be one'. The school is situated on the Convent Avenue.