SECONDARY SCHOOLS:

– St. Paul’s, Raheny, Dublin

– St. Vincent’s, Castleknock, Dublin

ST. PAUL’S, RAHENY, DUBLIN

The brothers Arthur (Lord Ardilaun) and Benjamin Lee Guinness built up an estate of nearly 123.75 hectares from 1835 onwards in the Clontarf/Raheny area and called the estate St. Anne’s after the Holy Well of the same name on the lands. Lord and Lady Ardilaun had no children and the estate passed to their nephew Bishop Plunkett in the 1920s. In 1937, he decided he could no longer maintain such a large estate and negotiations with the Corporation resulted in the house and estate being sold to the Corporation for approximately £55,000 in 1939. Bishop Plunkett retained Sybil Hill (now St. Paul’s College) as a private residence with 30 acres of parkland.

In 1950, St. Paul’s College opened its doors to lay students in Raheny. The college began its life in the former house of Bishop Plunkett in 1950 after the Archbishop of Dublin Dr. Charles McQuaid requested the Vincentian order to open a Catholic Boys school in a rapidly expanding area of the north city. Soon the first section of the school was built.

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ST. VINCENT’S, CASTLEKNOCK, DUBLIN

On Friday 28th August, 1835, St. Vincent’s College, Castleknock opened its doors for the first time. It would serve as a junior seminary for the Dublin diocese and the firm backing of Dr. Murray, Archbishop of Dublin. Dr. Murray announced that all Dublin entrants to Maynooth and any other major seminary would have to have done preliminary studies in Castleknock. He also provided two scholarships for students from St. Vincent to Maynooth. When Holy Cross, Clonliffe College opened in 1861, Castleknock ceased to serve as the Dublin Diocesan Seminary. It has since then and to this day continued to serve as a college for lay students.

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