established sometime in the 1920s, was at one point the largest school in the county. Kyrock High School joined the county's other rural high schools to merge with Brownsville High School in 1959 to form the Edmonson County High School in Brownsville. Kyrock Elementary School is the sole educational institution in the area, housing elementary students from all of the northern half of the county since the 1959-60 school year. The school housed grades 1-8 until 1981, when the Edmonson County Middle School opened. Kyrock continued to house kindergarten through fifth grade, but then dropping fifth grade in 2004 with the opening of the Edmonson County Fifth/Sixth Grade Center. This was done in order to reinstate preschool classes in the county's two elementary schools. Transportation In addition to the Nolin River, Kyrock was also served with a ferry that connected the town to Whistle Mountain, and eventually to areas along what is now State Highway 728 into the northeastern portion of the county. Ferry service was discontinued a few years before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers impounded Nolin River to build Nolin Dam in 1963. State Highway 65 (KY 65; now signed as State Highway 259), which connected Kyrock to other communities and areas of the county, including Brownsville. The main street in and out of the town of Kyrock, now Kyrock Road (CR-1051), led west to KY 65 in Sweeden. Today, Kyrock is nothing more than an rural, unincorporated community along a county-maintained road off KY 259 near Sweeden. Kyrock Road runs from KY 259 in Sweeden to KY 728 just west of Nolin Lake. References External links Historic Mammoth Cave on Facebook - a social media-based effort to preserve photo history of the entire Cave Country region of south-central Kentucky Kyrock Elementary School (Archived April 7, 2010 Homage to Kyrock Kyrock-KY on Facebook Ghost towns in Kentucky Geography of Edmonson County, Kentucky 1918 establishments in Kentucky 1957 disestablishments in Kentucky