VIRGINIA COLLEGE

JENNIFER BREEN

AGE: 15

YEAR: 3RD YEAR

FAMILY: TWO SISTERS, MICHELLE AND LAURA

HOBBIES: READING, PLAYING VIDEO GAMES

FAVOURITE SPORTS: TENNIS & BADMINTON

PRESENTATION

JENNIFER WILL TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT VIRGINIA, THE UNIQUE HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL

TRISTAN WILL TELL YOU ABOUT LOUGH RAMOR, THE AMENITIES AND THE SURROUNDING INDUSTRIES

EVAN WILL REVIEW THE ANALYSIS OF OUR WATER SURVEY

MOVIE CREATED WITH TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC

VIRGINIACOUNTY CAVAN

SITUATED NEAR THE NORTH OF IRELAND

VIRGINIA TOWNVIRGINIA IS A SMALL TOWN OF 3,188 INHABITANTS (ACCORDING TO CENSUS 2006) IN COUNTY CAVAN,

IRELAND. IT IS THE FIFTH LARGEST TOWN IN CAVAN. THE IRISH FOR VIRGINIA IS ACHADH AN IÚIR, MEANING ‘FIELD OF THE YEW’. IT WAS FOUNDED DURING THE ULSER PLANTATION AND WAS NAMED AFTER

QUEEN ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND.  IT IS ALSO HOME TO THE POPULAR ANNUAL VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL SHOW FOR OVER SEVENTY YEARS AND IRELAND'S ONLY HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN FESTIVAL.

OUR SCHOOL

OUR SCHOOL WAS BUILT BY THE COMMUNITY AND ALWAYS HAS A COMMUNITY RESPONSE

• IS UNIQUE

• LOCAL FARMERS MORTAGED THEIR LAND TO BUILD THE SCHOOL IN 1962

• SOME OF THE TEACHERS IN OUR SCHOOL ARE THE GRAND CHILDREN OF THOSE ORIGINAL FARMERS

1973 2013

VIRGINIA COLLEGE WAS FOUNDED IN 1962. THE SCHOOL HAS GROWN RAPIDLY OVER

THE YEARS AND HAS A PRESENT ENROLMENT OF 700 STUDENTS

THE MOTTO OF OUR SCHOOL IS

“TÚS FEASA FIAFRAÍ”, MEANING

"KNOWLEDGE BEGINS WITH QUESTIONS".

VIRGINIA COLLEGE

IS SITUATED BESIDE

LOUGH RAMOR AND

VIRGINIA FOREST PARK

LOUGH RAMOR

• LOUGH RAMOR IS A LARGE NATURAL LAKE OF 741 HECTARES SITUATED NEAR VIRGINIA CO.CAVAN AND HAS AN AVERAGE DEPTH OF 4 METRES

• IT HAS A TOTAL OF 32 ISLANDS

• IT WAS FORMED BY A GLACIER THAT MELTED AFTER THE LAST ICE-AGE

INDUSTRIES •GLANBIA

• THE WORD GLANDBIA MEANS “PURE FOOD”

• IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1975

• IT PRODUCES  CREAM BASE & CREAM FOR BAILEYS ORIGINAL CREAM LIQUEUR, MILK POWDERS

• IT IS SITUATED NEXT TO LOUGH RAMOR ON THE DUBLIN ROAD

WILDLIFE • COMMON SPECIES OF FISH

• FOREST NEXT TO THE LAKE

• SPECIES OF ANIMALS FOUND AROUND THE LAKE AND IN THE FOREST

BROWN TROUT FRESHWATER BROWN TROUT RANGE IN COLOUR FROM LARGELY SILVER WITH RELATIVELY FEW SPOTS AND A WHITE BELLY

FISH• THE ROACH

• THE ROACH HAS A SILVERY COLOUR WITH RED FINS

• THEY HAVE A LAYER OF SLIME ON THEIR SCALES

PIKE• THE PIKE IS THE LARGEST FISH FOUND IN LOUGH RAMOR, SOME GROW UP TO 30

POUNDS

• THEY HAVE A GREYISH GREEN COLOUR TO THEM AND THEY HAVE LARGE TEETH

ANIMALS AROUND THE LAKE• AN ANIMAL COMMONLY FOUND ALONG THE SHORES OF LOUGH RAMOR IS THE

MINK

• THE MINK FEEDS ON AND FISH IT CAN CATCH AND IT IS QUITE FEARLESS

• IT HAS A BROWN/BLACK COAT

FOREST ANIMALS • THESE ANIMALS INCLUDE, FOX’S, BADGERS, FROGS, PHEASANTS, ROBINS, HEDGEHOG AND RABBIT ARE MOST COMMON

• THE FOREST ITSELF IS MAINLY MADE UP OF OAK, HORSECHESTNUT, PINE, BEACH AND SYCAMORE

SURVEY RESULTS