St. Wolstan's Community School is an all-female community school, under the trusteeship of the

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, the

Holy Faith Sisters The Sisters of the Holy Faith is a Catholic religious congregation, originally for the care of Catholic orphans. It now works broadly in the areas of education and faith development. The congregation is part of the Vincentian family. History I ...

and

Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board Kildare () is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. , its population was 8,634 making it the 7th largest town in County Kildare. The town lies on the R445, some west of Dublin – near enough for it to have become, despite being a regional cen ...

situated in

Celbridge Celbridge (; ) is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is west of Dublin. Both a local centre and a commuter town within the Greater Dublin Area, it is located at the intersection of the ...

County Kildare County Kildare ( ga, Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare County Council is the local authority for the county, ...

, Ireland. It is the only all-girls community school in Ireland.

History

St. Wolstan's Priory St. Wolstan's Priory is a former Augustinian ( Victorine) monastery located in County Kildare, Ireland. Location St. Wolstan's Priory is located on the eastern edge of Celbridge, on the south bank of the River Liffey; it lies southeast of Cas ...

was founded between 1202 and 1205 by

Adam de Hereford Adam de Hereford was one of the first generation of Norman colonisers in Ireland. Naval commander He was the Norman commander at a naval battle in 1174 when a fleet of thirty-two ships from Cork, carrying armed men under the command of Gilbert, s ...

and named after Saint Wolstan (also spelled ''Wulfstan''; died 1095). The monastery was dissolved in 1536 and when the

opened a girls' school on the site (located south of Castletown House) in 1955 they revived the name: St. Wolstan's Holy Faith Convent School. The school moved to its present site in Ballymakealy Upper in 1999."St. Wolstan's 50th Anniversary", 2005.

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St. Wolstan's Community School
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