[citation needed] Originally intended to be sited at Mountnorris, the turbulent situation in Ulster at the time led to a move to the relative safety of Armagh city.

[4] Each pupil is assigned to a house – Darcy, Rokeby, Beresford or Armstrong – which are named after former Church of Ireland archbishops.

To mark the occasion, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visited the school.

A few months later, a second member of the squad, Todd Graham, was killed in a road accident while visiting his parents at their home in Zambia.

[citation needed] The girls' hockey team won the Schools Cup in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010, 2023 and were beaten finalists in 2005.

Although at one time the Royal School educated politicians and novelists, its most recent notable exports have been rugby players.