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St Patrick's Grammar School (Irish: Scoil Ghramadaí Naomh Pádraig), Armagh, is a Roman Catholic boys' voluntary school in the city of Armagh, Northern Ireland.The present-day school was officially opened on Thursday, 27 October, 1988, by the late Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich, the then Chairman of the Board of Governors, and was the result of the amalgamation of two of Northern Ireland's oldest ...
The school arrived at its current 27-acre (110,000 m 2) site on College Hill in the 1770s. [3] A boys' school from its inception, the school was amalgamated with Armagh Girls' High School in 1986 to become co-educational. [4]
The Province of Armagh is one of the four ecclesiastical provinces that together form the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland; the others are Dublin, Tuam and Cashel.The geographical remit of the province straddles both political jurisdictions on the island of Ireland – the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The following is a list of parishes in County Armagh. [1] Parish Etymology or likely etymology Townlands Sources Armagh: Irish: Ard Mhacha, meaning 'Macha's height ...
Ardtrea North is the official name of Newbridge parish, the first parish (geographically) in the Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland diocese of Armagh. The Parish also incorporates the breakaway community of Ballymaguigan.
The Diocese of Armagh is the metropolitan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Armagh, ... 13 Diocesan Readers and 37 Parish Readers. [1] ... Schools, churches ...
Armagh is within the civil parish of Armagh. Like the rest of Ireland, this parish is divided into townlands , whose names mostly come from the Irish language. When these townlands were built upon, they lent their names to various streets, roads and housing estates.
Keady (from Irish An Céide, meaning 'the flat-topped hill' [1]) is a town and civil parish in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is south of Armagh and near the border with the Republic of Ireland. It is situated mainly in the historic barony of Armagh with six townlands in the barony of Tiranny. [2] It had a population of 3,051 people in the ...