Coláiste Bhaile Chláir
Claregalway's secondary school opened on 2 September 2013 and has been building ever since. Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, at Lakeview, is co-educational and multidenominational under the Galway and Roscommon ETB, recognised by Microsoft as a showcase school for how it uses technology in teaching; work on a 23-classroom extension began in early 2016 and plans of July 2018 added more space and a purpose-built Educate Together school beside it.
Checked against the source on 2026-09-19.
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Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, Claregalway Castle, Claregalway Friary on the 3D model; tap a pin for its page and directions.
Who teaches there
The principal, Alan Mongey, is a former president of the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals; his deputies include Cyril Donnellan, the former Galway hurler. The Galway footballers Damien Comer, who teaches science and maths, Paul Conroy, who teaches Irish and business, and Fiontán Ó Curraoin, the hurler James Regan and the 2013 All-Ireland-winning camogie captain Lorraine Ryan are on the staff. Pupils take the Junior and Leaving Certificate and Transition Year, with woodwork, metalwork, home economics, graphics, business, music and languages, and play football, camogie, hurling, soccer, basketball, badminton and golf. The model on this page pins the college with the castle and friary.
Questions people ask
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Written from Wikipedia, "Coláiste Bhaile Chláir" (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.