placenamesSalthill
Bóthar na Trá
A college established to prepare future teachers became a local day school on Threadneedle Road.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Bóthar na Trá · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Salthill · English · main form
Place & story
From Furbo to Salthill
Coláiste Éinde opened at Furbo in 1928 and moved to Threadneedle Road in 1937. Its institutional history describes an Irish-speaking boys’ boarding college preparing students for primary-teacher training. In 1986 it became a day school, with teaching through English and pupils drawn mainly from the surrounding area. The first female students enrolled in 1991. These changes gave the Salthill campus a different relationship with its local community from that of the earlier residential college. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Salthill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History of Coláiste Éinde · Coláiste Éinde, Salthill
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.