Historic churches · Northern Ireland
St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School, Donaghmore
St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School, Donaghmore in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
About
St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School, Donaghmore is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
St Joseph's Grammar School (Irish: Scoil Ghramadaí Naomh Iósaef), sometimes known colloquially as Donaghmore Convent, the Convent or SJS, is a Catholic school in Donaghmore, County Tyrone which caters for 900 pupils aged between 11 and 18.
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Background
History
It was founded by the Daughters of the Cross originally from Belgium, who had been active in Britain and Ireland since 1869. Canon Joseph O’Neill of Donaghmore invited the order to establish a convent and school in 1920. Miss Frances Ellis, a great benefactress of the Daughters of the Cross, donated the then-significant sum of £987 for the school at the time of its foundation. It was an all-girls school, until 2003, when it became co-ed. In 2007 the religious sisters left the school and it is now entirely staffed by lay teachers. In March 2023, St. Joseph's Grammar School won the All-Ireland Paddy Drummond Cup, a Gaelic football schools competition, for the first time in their history. They…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5310, -6.8170
- Address
- 58 Castlecaulfield Rd,
- Official site
- www.stjosephs.donaghmore.ni.sch.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7589154 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Joseph's Convent Grammar School, Donaghmore (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School, Donaghmore?
- St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School, Donaghmore is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5310°, -6.8170°.