Gormanstown College Stamullen

Gormanston College is a private, fee-paying, coeducational Catholic secondary school under the trusteeship of the Franciscan Province of Ireland. The College is located at Gormanston Castle (built 1786), near Gormanston, County Meath, about 32 kilometres (20 miles) north of Dublin, Ireland. The student body numbers around 600 and enjoys a strong international flavour. There is a mix of boarding and day boarding (day boarding is co-educational). The College ethos strives to be fair and firm in an atmosphere where students are directed towards the values of mutual respect, social awareness and reverence for Gospel values. The College Motto is Dei Gloriae, Hiberniae Honori which translates To the glory of God and the honour of Ireland. In 1947 the Franciscan Order purchased the ancestral home of the Hiberno-Norman Preston family, Gormanston Castle, from Pamela O Connor, whose husband had been the sixteenth Viscount Gormanston from 1925 until his death in 1940,^[1] partially to establish a quality secondary college with a more Irish and nationalist ethos than other boarding schools in the Pale area; the most obvious manifestation of this emphasis was the establishment of Gaelic Football as the main sporting activity evcouraged by the college.^{[citation needed]} The first boarding students were received in 1954 and the new college was opened in 1957.^[2] The first students graduated from the College in 1957, a number of whom returned to become rectors at the College, Pat McSweeney OFM, Bob Doyle OFM, Paddy Timothy OFM. Prior to the establishment of the school, Gormanston Castle and demesne had been in the possession of the Preston family who have been Viscounts Gormanston since the fourteenth century. Source: Wikipedia