Local legend describes that Copsewood was named in the 19th century for Fr. Michael Copps, who lived in the house. The Salesians first took possession of Copsewood House in 1919. The boys-only missionary school opened in 1920 with 100 students, 80 of them boarders. The Agricultural School opened the same year.
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Pallaskenry has a primary school (St. Mary's) with 168 students, a secondary school (Salesian Secondary College, formerly Copsewood College, with approximately 702 students), and a Pre-School (Kiddies Corner) located in the community centre. Author Darren Shan attended Copsewood College, and has lived close to the village most of his life. He opened the Primary School's new school library in June 2008.
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He read a paragraph of 'Cirque De Freak' and some of the children dressed up as characters from his books. Copsewood also is home to Pallaskenry Agricultural College.
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Lynch was born at Innishannon, County Cork. He was educated at Hamilton High School, County Cork, Copsewood College in County Limerick and studied accountancy and economics at Waterford Regional Technical College.
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Coventry Copsewood F.C. are a football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England. In 2005, they changed their name from Coventry Marconi to their present name. Currently they are members of the .
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It was heard that the word 'Garal bari' (গড়াল বাড়ি) comes from the word ‘Garh’ trees. Garh tree belongs to the bush or Copsewood family. In the 1900s A.D.the undivided Jalpaiguri district has a big area. At that time the Panchagarh part(Rangpur district) of Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) lies within the Western Duars District.
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Caufeild was married a second time to Anne Rachel, daughter of the late Major William Blake of the 13th Bengal Native Infantry. She died in 1890. Their son George Caulfeild of Copsewood (1841–1922) served in the Rifle Brigade and was High Sheriff of Limerick. Lieutenant-General Caulfeild had two further sons by his second marriage.Burke's.
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The team play their home games at Allard Way, which is often used for local cup finals. Although around the pitch there is one small stand and a small covered shelter behind one goal. The team do have a large (for their level of football) two storey club house which they share with the other sports clubs which together make up the Copsewood Sports and Social Club.
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9, ed. Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1901, p. 141-142, Brocklebank pedigree Moon was created a baronet, of Copsewood Grange, in the parish Stoke, in the County of Warwick, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, on 22 July 1887. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, Cecil Ernest Moon (son of Sir Richard's eldest son, Edward, who died in 1893).
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Shan was born in St Thomas's Hospital in London, opposite the Houses of parliament. At the age of three, he started school at English Martyrs' near the Elephant and Castle where he lived. When he was six, he moved with his parents and younger brother, to Limerick in Ireland, where he has lived ever since. He received his primary education in Askeaton, and attended secondary school at Copsewood College, Pallaskenry, graduating in 1989.
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Salesian Secondary College, formerly Copsewood College, is a secondary school located outside the village of Pallaskenry, County Limerick, Ireland. The school campus is owned by the Salesians and shared with Pallaskenry Agricultural College.Salesians Ireland. Retrieved 2014-01-17 There are approximately 500 students enrolled in the schools co-educational program. The principal is Ms. Morgan O’Brien The school's webpage describes its mission as providing an education "based on Christian/Catholic values" while incorporating "the characteristics of Salesian Education".
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Tennyson's Lane in memory of the poet is a high, slightly sunken, tree-tunnel lane that runs from Haslemere past the highest home, Aldworth House (today a couple of dwellings). The lane keeps to Arthur Paterson's description in 1905: > Trees meet overhead, copsewood surrounds it, and later, it is hedged by high > sandy banks thickly overgrown with plant and scrub; squirrels and rabbits, > and all other small woodland creatures, disport themselves over it. It > twists and turns, and to the stranger appears to lead nowhere in particular.
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Broadstreet R.F.C are the only other club to play in a 'National league', currently playing in National Division 2 North. There are a further 12 clubs playing in the Midland divisions of the English Rugby Union system. In 2015, they included Barkers Butts RFC, Dunlop RFC, Earlsdon RFC, Pinley, Old Coventrians, Coventrians, Coventry Welsh, Stoke Old Boys RFC, Copsewood RFC, Keresley RFC, Old Wheatleyans and Trinity Guild RFC. Both Coventry University and the University of Warwick compete in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Rugby competitions.
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The club was formed in 1922 by employees of Peel Connor, and was known as the 'Connor'. They played in the Coventry District League until 1926 when due to an amalgamation with Magnito Ltd, they were renamed Magnet FC. They continued playing under this name until 1934 when they changed again to GEC (Cov) FC. This name stuck for longer, lasting until the 1970s when they became GPT (Coventry) FC, and then changed again in 1999 to Marconi (Coventry) FC, and then when Marconi sold off their land in 2006, it became Coventry Copsewood FC.
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The 2013–14 season saw the football club begin a ground share with Northampton Town F.C. at Sixfields Stadium, Northampton, which lasted until their return to the Ricoh Arena in September 2014. The 2019–20 season saw the Sky Blues once again playing their home fixtures out of Coventry, at Birmingham City's St Andrew's Stadium. Aside from Coventry City F.C., there are several other clubs in the city playing non-league football. Coventry Sphinx, Coventry Alvis, Coventry Copsewood and Coventry United all play in the Midland Football League.
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Former pit worker cottages still remain along Willenhall Lane and St James Lane. Binley is flanked by Willenhall to one side (separated by the Coventry to Euston railway line), Stoke Aldermoor to another side (separated by Allard Way road), and Binley Woods on a third side, which almost joins Binley since the construction of the Eastern Bypass, a B&Q; store and a T.G.I. Friday's restaurant between the two areas. The final side is Copsewood, leading to Wyken in one direction, and Stoke the other. In the 1960s, a new housing estate called Ernesford Grange was built in Binley.
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David Molony (23 August 1950 – 4 September 2002) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as both a Senator and a Teachta Dála (TD). Born in Thurles, County Tipperary, he was educated in Thurles Christian Brothers' School, Coláiste na Rinne in Waterford, Copsewood College in Limerick, University College Dublin and the Law School of the Incorporated Law Society. He qualified as a lawyer and in the 1970s he worked with the Free Legal Aid Centres (FLAC), a voluntary group providing free legal aid, eventually became the chairman of FLAC. In 1977 he was elected to the 14th Seanad Éireann on the Cultural and Educational Panel.
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Stoke Aldermoor is also known locally in Hollywood movie fame as the place where the famous Mini sewer chase was shot for the film The Italian Job, the Minis were lowered into the newly built sewers on the outskirts of Stoke Aldermoor and driven to the Finham Sewage Works. between 2015-2019 Mr Conway searched the full area of the film shoot, during this time he discovered various photographs that pinpointed the spot where the Mini's were lowered into the Sowe Valley duplication sewer. The black path that is between the Barley Lea and Corpus Christi school on the right-hand side of the subway. The sewer continues along the fields and along down towards Copsewood.
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Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1901, p. 141-142, Brocklebank pedigree Moon became a member of the board of the London and North Western Railway in 1847, the company having just come into existence as the result of the amalgamation of several lines. First becoming a director, he was appointed chairman in June 1861. Sir Richard also founded the Snowdon Mountain Railway in Wales, in association with George Assheton-Smith, which opened in 1896. He lived in Bevere, a small hamlet on the banks of the River Severn, in Claines parish, Worcestershire, from 1849 to 1863.Braine, Peter The Railway Moon pmb publishing, Taunton 2010 p32-36 At the parish vestry meeting on 24 April 1851 he was elected as Vicar's Churchwarden.Braine, Peter The Railway Moon pmb publishing, Taunton 2010 p36 After moving to Copsewood Grange, east of Coventry, he invested in Joseph Cash's attempts to manufacture artificial silk.
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Tibbenham had earlier trialed the building methods with Oakhurst and Tudor House in Northwood, Middlesex, a pair of Arts & Crafts oak- framed houses on the Copsewood estate, which are two of the total of only four Tibbenham buildings known to have been built by the Tibbenham Construction Company, and which are now Locally Listed. In 2010 Oakhurst came under threat of demolition by a developer, with campaigners attempting to save it, but in September 2012 permission was granted to demolish the house; demolition is scheduled for September 2013. Another building, the clubhouse for Ipswich Golf Club, opened in 1927, was built on a not-for-profit basis by Tibbenham for £3200. In 1934 Tibbenham was on the board of Frinton Park Estate Limited, the management company for an ambitious Art Deco development planned between Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze which was intended to be a showcase for British design.
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