Category: Latest News

  • Community Centre Progress Blog

    This blog will keep you up-to-date with progress on Saintfield’s community centre, so watch this space!

  • George Ringland d: 12/12/64 & Edith Mary Ringland d: 05/03/83

    If you can help with this family history search please reply directly by using the Comment box at the bottom of the post or email us at info@discoversaintfield.com and we will forward your information. Dear Saintfield folk, I would be grateful for any information about this couple in my family. George RINGLAND died 12 December […]

  • Grow Wild Planting Scheme

    It might only be March, but there is no rest for the members of the Saintfield Development Association’s Green Saintfield Committee!  As part of Saintfield’s Landscape Masterplan work has begun to prepare the ground for the planting of wild flowers on the approach to Saintfield at the Comber Road / Belfast Road junction.  You can follow the […]

  • Green Light For Community Centre

    There has been good progress with the community centre project. As reported on the website in January, (see HERE ), the public consultation events in December, kindly hosted by Saintfield High School, were very successful. Fifty five people, representing thirty five local groups (which between them represented over 4,000 members), gave valuable suggestions on priorities for the […]

  • Download Issue 10 Of Saintfield News!

    Issue 10 of Saintfield Development Association’s Saintfield News is available for download HERE.

  • SDA Members Meet Rowallane DEA Officer Ellen Brennan

    Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has recently established a Forum in each of its seven District Electoral Areas (DEA) supported by a specific DEA Coordinator. The Officer in Rowallane DEA is Ellen Brennan, and some members of Saintfield Development Association were photographed with Ellen (centre) at the Inaugural DEA Public Meeting in Ballynahinch Market House […]

  • Music At The Hub

  • Primary School Children Create Public Art

    Alison Lowry moved into the Old School House in Comber Street last year and has established a fully functioning glass art studio running classes for children, beginners and adults. Recently Alison worked with St. Mary’s PS and Academy PS to produce a wall piece for the entrance to Manse Court on Crossgar Road. This is Saintfield’s first piece of public […]

  • A Dusting Of Snow

    Overnight Saintfield had a dusting of snow. Here are a couple of early morning photographs as the sun rose above the horizon.

  • Saintfield Community Centre update January 2016

    It has been many months since Saintfield Development Association has communicated progress on the project to provide a community centre for Saintfield and the surrounding area. Like most people, the SDA Committee working on the project, was very disappointed when the newly formed Newry, Mourne and Down District Council effectively stopped the project that had […]