St Colman's College, Newry

St Colman's College (Irish: Coláiste Naomh Colmán, An Iúraigh) is a Roman Catholic school in Newry, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Now named in honour of St. Colman, it was founded in 1823 as the Dromore Diocesan Seminary by a Father J.S. Keenan. The College stands on Violet Hill, the same 60 acre (243,000 m²) site it has occupied since 1829, adjacent to the Bishop of Dromore's residence.

Enrolment

It is a grammar school and currently has almost 900 students attending. Current principal Mr Cormac McKinney, is the first lay principal in the College's history.

St. Colman's is renowned in Irish sport as a particular nursery for Gaelic footballers for both Down and Armagh. As of 2011, the College's senior Gaelic football team are the Ulster and All-Ireland champions.

Aims of the college

Every boy carries the aims of the College, "Bonitas, Disciplina, Scientia", on his blazer pocket badge:

St Colman's College

St. Colman's College may refer to:

St Colman's College, Claremorris

St Colman's College is an all-boys secondary school in Claremorris, County Mayo. Approximately 400 pupils attend.

History

The School was founded in 1945, as a school for the boys of Claremorris to attend instead of having to travel to Ballinrobe. An Old Manor House on the Knock Road was used as the site for the school, where it has remained to the present day. The school is named in honour of St. Colman, as Claremorris is in the parish of Kilcolman.

Principals

Notable alumni

Newry

Coordinates: 54°10′34″N 6°20′56″W / 54.176°N 6.349°W / 54.176; -6.349

Newry (/ˈnjʊəri/;from Irish: An Iúraigh) is a city in Northern Ireland, 34 miles (55 km) from Belfast and 67 miles (108 km) from Dublin. It had a population of 29,946 in 2011.

Newry was founded in 1144 alongside a Cistercian monastery, although there are references to earlier settlements in the area. It is one of Ireland's oldest towns.

Newry is at the entry to the "Gap of the North", close to the border with the Republic of Ireland. It grew as a market town and a garrison and became a port in 1742 when it was linked to Lough Neagh by the first summit-level canal built in Ireland or Great Britain. In 2002, as part of Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee celebrations, Newry was granted city status along with Lisburn.

Name

The name Newry derives from an anglicisation of An Iúraigh, an oblique form of An Iúrach, which means "the grove of yew trees".

The modern Irish name for Newry is An tIúr (pronounced [ən̠ʲ tʲuːɾˠ]), which means "the yew tree". An tIúr is an abbreviation of Iúr Cinn Trá, which itself means "yew tree at the head of the strand". This relates to an apocryphal story that Saint Patrick planted a yew tree there in the 5th century.

Newry (civil parish)

Newry is a civil parish in County Down and County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic baronies of Iveagh Upper, Lower Half (one townland) and Lordship of Newry in County Down and the baronies of Orior Upper and Oneilland West (two townlands) in County Armagh.

Settlements

The townland contains the following settlements:

Townlands

Newry civil parish contains the following townlands:

See also

References

Newry (UK Parliament constituency)

Newry was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Newry in County Down.

Members of Parliament

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