Historic churches · Northern Ireland
St Killian's College
St Killian's College in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
About
St Killian's College 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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St Killian's College (Irish: Coláiste Naomh Cillian, also known colloquially as Garron Tower) is a secondary school located in the Glens of Antrim area of Northern Ireland. Garron Tower was built circa 1850 as a summer residence for Frances, Marchioness of Londonderry. It was converted into St MacNissi's College, a college for educating Catholic boys, in 1951. The current incarnation of the school, resulting from the amalgamation of St MacNissi's College with nearby colleges, emerged in 2010 after a series of reforms by the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS). The school is regularly listed as one of the top performing schools in Northern Ireland and ranked 5th in the A-Level table in the 2019 year. Historically a grammar school, the school became an all-abilities school in 2010 and was renamed St Killian's College after the CCMS announced it would be focusing on transforming every school to all-abilities.
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Background
History
The college's building history predates the school by over 100 years. Garron Tower was built in 1850 at a cost of £4,000 as a summer residence for Frances, Marchioness of Londonderry (1800-1865), the wealthy wife of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. She had inherited this part of the Antrim family's estates from her mother, Anne Katherine MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim, who married Sir Henry Vane-Tempest of County Durham. The college was founded as St MacNissi's College, in 1951 as a boarding school for boys. The buildings were acquired a year earlier in 1950 by Bishop Daniel Mageean for use as a boarding school for boys. The school opened in September 1951. On 1 April 2010, the Council for…
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- Coordinates
- 55.0430, -5.9680
- Address
- Carnlough
- Established
- 2010
- Official site
- www.stkillianscollege.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7593922 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Killian's College (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St Killian's College?
- St Killian's College is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.0430°, -5.9680°.
- When was St Killian's College built?
- St Killian's College dates to 2010.