Ring, County Waterford
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Ring An Rinn |
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| Gaeltacht district | |
 Ring
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| Coordinates: 52°03′00″N 7°35′00″W / 52.0500°N 7.5833°WCoordinates: 52°03′00″N 7°35′00″W / 52.0500°N 7.5833°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Waterford |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 500 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | X259930 |
Ring (Irish: An Rinn, its official name) or Ringagonagh (Rinn Ó gCuanach) is a parish within the Irish-speaking Gaeltacht na nDéise area in County Waterford, Ireland. It lies on a peninsula about seven miles 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 (boarding Irish medium school) and one secondary school, Meánscoil San Nioclás — a post office, restaurants, pubs and other businesses. There are also two fishing piers/harbours (Ballynagaul and Helvick), two beaches (The Cunnigar and Ballynagaul) and a cove at Helvick.
'Ring' is an anglicisation of the Irish name 'An Rinn', meaning a meaning cape, point or headland. In 2005, the then 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 (such as 'Ring') of Gaeltacht towns and villages would no longer feature on official signposts, and only the Irish language names would appear. The English-language version of the town's name was thus officially dropped from roadsigns in 2005. However, the English-language version of the name, Ring, is still widely used in Waterford and elsewhere.
The Irish language plays an important role for people in the area, which is pivotal for improving their linguistic abilities. Gaoluinn na nDéise - the Waterford variant of the Munster Irish dialect - is spoken by 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. A large number of people have moved to the area over recent decades (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.
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