Historic churches · Northern Ireland
St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon
St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
About
St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon 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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Saint Patrick's Academy (Irish: Acadamh Naomh Pádraig) is a voluntary grammar school located in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It formed on 1 September 2003 when the two single-sex Saint Patrick's Academies, which coexisted on the same site as two distinct and separate institutions, were merged as one. In January 2013 the Education Minister John O'Dowd announced the school was one of 22 schools to get a new build project.
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Background
History
Founded in 1891, St. Patrick's Academy was, for its first three years, a boys' school. From September 1894, the Sisters of Mercy undertook the teaching of students in preparation for the Intermediate board's examination. The Girls' Academy was based in a single room in the newly built Mercy Convent on Northland Row. Both schools moved to new premises on Killyman Road in September 1901; the academy building was to be the home of the school for the next seventy years. The Boys' Academy was always led by the clergymen appointed by the Tyrone Roman Catholic Board of Education, while the Girls' Academy was led by a senior member of the Sisters of Mercy. The academy eventually outgrew its home on…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5080, -6.7580
- Address
- Killymeal Road
- Established
- 2003
- Official site
- www.stpatricksacademy.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7595049 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon?
- St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5080°, -6.7580°.
- When was St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon built?
- St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon dates to 2003.