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Farranferris was a secondary school, on the north side of Cork City, Ireland.
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St Finbarr's College was built as a seminary for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross in 1883-5. It was constructed by E.P. O'Flynn at a cost of £17,000 to designs by Samuel Francis Hynes (it is listed in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritige as a "fine and imposing example of late Victorian ecclesiastical architecture in the Gothic Revival style").
In 1960, the college was expanded (to the designs of James Boyd Barrett) to provide extra schoolroom accommodation and it began to take non-seminary boarders.
With time, Farranferris began to accept pupils from the city as day students.
The uniform worn by students was a wine-coloured jumper with grey shirt and trousers.
The centenary of the founding of the seminary was celebrated in 1987.
Farranferris closed to boarding pupils at the end of the 1999-2000 academic year and the college closed fully in 2006.
Sports
The school was successful at hurling, having won the Dr. Harty Cup and Dr. Croke Cup on several occasions.