We hope that this website will give you an insight into the life and community of our school. We hope that this site is informative, helpful and interesting. The site was developed and is maintained by the Transition year pupils' during their web design module, under the instruction of one of their teachers'.

Our mission is to bring the curriculum of the school and the facilities offered entirely into line with the demanding and changing educational requirements of the new millenium and thereby provide quality education for all our pupils in the Christian Ethos.

A brief history

The Royal School Cavan is one of the Ulster Royal Schools which where founded during the reign of James 1, at the time of the Ulster Plantation. The first Headmaster was John Robinson who was appointed on the 5th. Of October 1611. The School has an unbroken educational tradition in County Cavan since then, becoming the country's second co-educational boarding school in 1924.

It is under Protestant management and is managed by the Protestant (Local) Board of Education. This is a board set up under the Educational Endowments (Ireland) Act of 1885 consisting of not less than nine members as follows:

• The Lord Bishop of Kilmore.
• Two representatives elected by the Kilmore Diocesan Council.
• Two representatives elected by Cavan Church of Ireland Parish Select Vestry.
• Three representatives nominated by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
• One member elected by the remaining members to represent all other denominations.
• Additional co-opted members.