placenamesRingsend
An Rinn
Ringsend College grew from a fisheries and nautical school into a broader centre of technical and secondary education.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Rinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ringsend · English · main form
Place & story
A school for a maritime community
The Earl of Pembroke built the Pembroke Technical and Ringsend Fisheries School in 1892. It opened on 7 October 1893 and became known locally as the Technical School, later the Ringsend Technical Institute. Teaching expanded from the needs of fishermen into motor engineering, trades and training for metalwork teachers. [2]
A new campus and name
The foundation stone for the replacement school was laid on 23 March 1979. Students began there in September 1980, before Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald formally opened it on 15 April 1983. During the 1980s and 1990s the institute also became a significant centre for repeat Leaving Certificate students. It adopted the name Ringsend College in 2011. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Dublin
- Civil parish
- Donnybrook
- Coordinates
- 53.33409, -6.22845 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412157 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ringsend. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ringsend College History · Ringsend College
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-01-12. How this page was prepared.