placenamesScotch Street
Sráid na nAlbanach
Richmount’s school history and Scotch Street’s youth centre record successive investments in local education and social life.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Sráid na nAlbanach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Scotch Street · English · main form
Place & story
Richmount’s school buildings
Richmount Primary School traces local schooling to 1820. Lord Lurgan supported a schoolhouse and teacher’s residence on a four-acre site beside the old Portadown–Moy road; the school opened in 1849. A replacement building opened on the Moy Road near Scotch Street in 1963. Dame Mary Peters formally opened a new hall and classroom in January 2015. [2]
A youth and community centre
Scotch Street Youth and Community Centre was formed in 2008 to provide an inclusive club for local young people and the wider community. In July 2022 its representatives met Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey to discuss their work and the pressures caused by rising living costs. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Oneilland West
- Civil parish
- Drumcree
- Within
- Timakeel
- Coordinates
- 54.44317, -6.50467 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 136071 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Scotch Street. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Richmount Primary School: Our School History · Richmount Primary School
- Hargey continues engagement with the voluntary and community sector, 28 July 2022 · Department for Communities, Northern Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.