placenamesTemplemore
An Teampall Mór
The town’s secondary school brought together Mercy and Christian Brothers traditions in 1985.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Teampall Mór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Templemore · English · main form
Place & story
An educational merger
Our Lady’s Secondary School traces its origins to the Sisters of Mercy, who arrived in Templemore in 1863 and provided second-level education. Their convent school became a voluntary secondary school in 1955. The Christian Brothers had opened their boys’ secondary school in 1932. These two institutions amalgamated in 1985 to form Our Lady’s. The school’s own history records a further change in 2007, when it transferred to the trusteeship of CEIST, Catholic Education an Irish Schools Trust. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templemore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History: Our Lady’s Secondary School Templemore · Our Lady’s Secondary School Templemore
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.