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| • | The Royal School, Armagh is a co-educational voluntary Grammar school in the city of Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was one of a number of 'free schools' created by King James I in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers during the plantation of Ulster. It has four 'sister' schools, The Royal School in Dungannon, County Tyrone, The Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, The Cavan Royal School in County Cavan, and The Royal and Prior School in Raphoe, County Donegal. The schools planned for other counties never came into being.
Originally intended to be sited at Mountnorris in South Armagh, the turbulent situation in Ulster at the time led to a move to the relative safety of Armagh City. Despite this an early headmaster of the school, John Starkey, and his family, were drowned by insurgents during the 1641 Rebellion. The school arrived at it current 27 acre site on College Hill in the 1770s. A boys' school from its inception, in 1986 the school amalgamated with Armagh Girls High School to become co-educational.
Source: [wikipedia: the royal school, armagh]
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