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School: St. Brigid's Convent, Kildraught

Location:
Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Sr. Donatus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0772, Page 119

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  1. The Collegiate School

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    About 3/4 of a mile outside the town of Celbridge there stands a large building which is now a boarding school named "The Collegiate School".
    There is an avenue of Lime trees from the Entrance Gates to the School and to the east of this avenue the ground slopes steeply through groups of trees and equally steeply it rises to an old lime-kiln which looks like the ruins of a castle.
    This school was built in the time of the Famine in Ireland when men worked for 1 1/2d a day. The ground was at that time owned by Lady L. Connolly.
    Later, Connolly gave it into the possession of the
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    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
        2. buildings
          1. schools (~4,094)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosie Mulligan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Celbridge, Co. Kildare