placenamesCampsie
Camsan
The school’s own prospectus records the move from the old Model School to Campsie Road.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Camsan · Irish · main form
- Campsie · English · main form
- Campsey · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Opening and expansion
Omagh County Primary School’s 2016 prospectus dates its official opening to 1959. The Campsie Road building replaced the town’s Model School, whose site later housed South West College. Six further classrooms were added in the early 1960s, followed by a visit from the Queen Mother. Principal Jill Funston’s account describes the subsequent growth of the school: by the time of that prospectus it had fourteen classrooms, a purpose-built nursery and early-years centre, and a learning-support centre. These facilities were recorded in 2016, rather than presented as a description of the school’s current accommodation. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Omagh East
- Civil parish
- Cappagh
- Coordinates
- 54.59941, -7.28354
- Mapped area
- 1.05 km²
- Logainm ID
- 64396 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Campsie. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Omagh County Primary School Prospectus2016, principal’s letter p3 · Jill Funston, principal; Omagh County Primary School
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.