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St Colmcille's (Irish: Naomh Colmcille) are one of three GAA clubs in Swords, County Dublin, Ireland. The other two Swords clubs are St Finians and Fingallians. The club was founded in 1935, and fields a single junior football team in Division 10 of the Dublin AFL (adult football league). The club's grounds are located at Hollybanks, Glen Ellen ...
St. Colmcille's Boys' National School and St. Colmcille's Girls' National School, both located in the town of Swords, are also named after the Saint as is one of the local gaelic teams, Naomh Colmcille. [33] The Columba Press, a religious and spiritual book company based in Dublin, is named after Colmcille. [34]
Swords (Irish: Sord [N 1] [sˠoːɾˠd̪ˠ] or Sord Cholmcille) in County Dublin, the county town of the local government area of Fingal, is a large suburban town on the east coast of Ireland, situated ten kilometres [10] north of Dublin city centre.
St. Colmcille's GAA was founded in 1971 through an amalgamation of two east Meath GAA clubs, Stars of the Sea and Shallon. [1] The club moved to their current ground of Pairc Ui Rís in 1989, named in honour of Edmund Rice.
Swords Castle is an early medieval castle located in Swords, Dublin. Originally built for the Archbishops of Dublin in the early 13th century near the Ward River , some of the castle estate had fallen into disrepair by the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Constituted from Swords River Valley: Swords: St Colmcille's, Swords Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Dublin Airport (chapel of ease) Church of the Visitation, Drynam (chapel of ease) 1608 Swords: 2 Lusk: St MacCullin's, Lusk 1669 Lusk: Rush: St Maur's, Rush 1730 Constituted from Lusk Rush: Skerries: St Patrick's, Skerries 1730 Constituted from Lusk ...
Called 'the golden-haired' she was a princess and the daughter of King Laoghaire who was baptised by St. Patrick together with her sister St. Fidelma. 11 January [93] Eithne/Etna 6th century Irish Eileach-an-Naoimh, (Garvellach islands, Scotland) The mother of St. Colmcille/Columba [94] Eithne and Sodelb: 6th century Leinster Tech ingen mBóiti