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Ring, County Waterford
Ring (Irish: An Rinn, its official name) or Ringagonagh (Irish: Rinn Ó gCuanach [ˈɾˠiːṉʲ ˈoː ˈɡuənˠəx]) is a parish within the Irish-speaking Gaeltacht na nDéise area in County Waterford, Ireland. It lies on a peninsula about eleven kilometres (7 mi) south of Dungarvan. The main settlement is the village of Ring or Ringville, which is within the townland of Ballynagaul.
It is a growing area that has three schools – two primary (including Scoil na Leanaí in Coláiste na Rinne, an Irish language boarding school) and one secondary school, Meánscoil San Nioclás. There are also restaurants, pubs, and other businesses. There are two fishing piers/harbours (Ballynagaul and Helvick), two beaches (The Cunnigar and Ballynagaul) and a cove at Helvick. It is the only Gaeltacht in Waterford, and the only one in the south-east of Ireland.
'Ring' is an anglicisation of the Irish name An Rinn, meaning cape, point or headland.[citation needed] In 2005, the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív announced that by way of Placenames Orders under the Official Languages Act 2003, anglicised place names of Gaeltacht towns and villages would no longer feature on official signposts, and only the Irish language names would appear.
Gaoluinn na nDéise, the Waterford variant of the Munster Irish language dialect, is spoken by local native speakers. The strongest age group of Irish speakers is the 10-14 age category, of which 50.8% use the language on a daily basis outside of educational institutions.[citation needed] A large number of people have moved to the area over recent decades[when?] (primarily from other parts of Ireland), and as a result, there is a group of people living in Ring for whom Irish is not their first language.
The Comprehensive Linguistic Study of the use of Irish in the Gaeltacht, published in 2007 and updated in 2014, gave information in relation to the number of Irish speakers in Gaeltacht na nDéise and the three electoral divisions it comprises: Ring, Ballymacart and Ardmore. The results for Ring were as follows: 43.07% in 2007 and 48.14% in 2014.
According to the 2016 census 33% of the population in the An Rinn electoral division claimed they spoke Irish on a daily basis outside the education system, while over 75% said they could speak Irish
Áine Ní Fhoghludha, an Irish language writer, was born here.
All education in Ring is taught in Irish. There is a pre-school, Naíonra na Rinne, in the local community centre, Ionad Pobail na Rinne. There is one primary school, Scoil Náisiúnta na Rinne, located at Maoil an Choirnigh. There is one secondary school, Meánscoil San Nioclás, which services Ring, An Sean Phobal, and there are also some students from Dungarvan.
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Ring, County Waterford
Ring (Irish: An Rinn, its official name) or Ringagonagh (Irish: Rinn Ó gCuanach [ˈɾˠiːṉʲ ˈoː ˈɡuənˠəx]) is a parish within the Irish-speaking Gaeltacht na nDéise area in County Waterford, Ireland. It lies on a peninsula about eleven kilometres (7 mi) south of Dungarvan. The main settlement is the village of Ring or Ringville, which is within the townland of Ballynagaul.
It is a growing area that has three schools – two primary (including Scoil na Leanaí in Coláiste na Rinne, an Irish language boarding school) and one secondary school, Meánscoil San Nioclás. There are also restaurants, pubs, and other businesses. There are two fishing piers/harbours (Ballynagaul and Helvick), two beaches (The Cunnigar and Ballynagaul) and a cove at Helvick. It is the only Gaeltacht in Waterford, and the only one in the south-east of Ireland.
'Ring' is an anglicisation of the Irish name An Rinn, meaning cape, point or headland.[citation needed] In 2005, the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív announced that by way of Placenames Orders under the Official Languages Act 2003, anglicised place names of Gaeltacht towns and villages would no longer feature on official signposts, and only the Irish language names would appear.
Gaoluinn na nDéise, the Waterford variant of the Munster Irish language dialect, is spoken by local native speakers. The strongest age group of Irish speakers is the 10-14 age category, of which 50.8% use the language on a daily basis outside of educational institutions.[citation needed] A large number of people have moved to the area over recent decades[when?] (primarily from other parts of Ireland), and as a result, there is a group of people living in Ring for whom Irish is not their first language.
The Comprehensive Linguistic Study of the use of Irish in the Gaeltacht, published in 2007 and updated in 2014, gave information in relation to the number of Irish speakers in Gaeltacht na nDéise and the three electoral divisions it comprises: Ring, Ballymacart and Ardmore. The results for Ring were as follows: 43.07% in 2007 and 48.14% in 2014.
According to the 2016 census 33% of the population in the An Rinn electoral division claimed they spoke Irish on a daily basis outside the education system, while over 75% said they could speak Irish
Áine Ní Fhoghludha, an Irish language writer, was born here.
All education in Ring is taught in Irish. There is a pre-school, Naíonra na Rinne, in the local community centre, Ionad Pobail na Rinne. There is one primary school, Scoil Náisiúnta na Rinne, located at Maoil an Choirnigh. There is one secondary school, Meánscoil San Nioclás, which services Ring, An Sean Phobal, and there are also some students from Dungarvan.
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