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Presentation College, Athenry

Athenry's Presentation convent was a daughter house of Tuam, and its sisters taught first in the old girls' primary school at Abbey Row before a new school went up on parish land behind the convent. In the late 1920s they added secondary classes on top of the primary school, and in 1930 four girls sat the Intermediate Certificate, the ancestor of today's Junior Certificate. Presentation College, Athenry, now under the CEIST trust, is the school that grew from those four.

Checked against the source on 2026-09-19.

Athenry Castle - Ireland
Athenry Castle - Ireland
Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Presentation College Athenry, Athenry Castle on the 3D model; tap a pin for its page and directions.

The school and its sports

The college offers the Junior and Leaving Certificate cycles and Transition Year and plays Gaelic football, camogie, hurling and soccer; the camogie sides of the school were the base of Athenry's club successes when it was founded in 1973 by Gilbert McCarthy, a teacher here. Cathal Moore, the Galway hurler born in 1975, is on the staff. The model on this page pins the college with the castle, the priory and the station.

Questions people ask

Is Presentation College Athenry a girls' school?
It began as the convent's girls' secondary top in the late 1920s and is now a voluntary Catholic secondary school under CEIST.
When did Presentation Athenry start secondary education?
In the late 1920s; four girls sat the Intermediate Certificate in 1930.

Written from Wikipedia, "Presentation College, Athenry" (CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-09-19, and from the OpenStreetMap places on the model. Nothing has been added from memory; follow the source for its footnotes.