St Macartan's College

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St. Macartan's College is the major Roman Catholic boys' Diocesan College in Monaghan, Ireland. It is named after Saint Macartan, follower of St. Patrick and founder and bishop of the Diocese of Clogher.
The foundation stone for St. Macartan's College was laid on 8 July 1840. Eight years later the "Sem" opened its doors to its first students, and for over a century and a half the school has adapted itself to meet the educational needs of boys in the North Monaghan and surrounding areas. The school complex has at its heart a grand seventeen-bay stone building. It is in the Georgian style and was designed by the Newry-born architect Thomas Duff in the 1830s. The building boasts a chapel, a collection of antiquities and a clock tower and includes a large lunch canteen, which was formerly used as a refectory for the school's boarders. In recent years the college has made the change from being predominantly a boarding school to a day school catering to its 770 students and has been sympathetically enlarged to meet the demands of the twenty-first century.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Macartan's_College
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Coordinates:   54°15'53"N   6°57'19"W

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  • What a horrible experience it was attending the sem as a border in the early 70's.How did they get away with it.
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