Coláiste Éinde
The long 1930s building on Threadneedle Road, on the city council's list of protected structures, is a diocesan secondary school of about 800 pupils named for the saint who founded the monastery on Inishmore. Coláiste Éinde began a few months after the new state, on 23 October 1928, in Blake's House at Furbo, as a residential college where boys taught through Irish prepared to become national school teachers; entry was by a hard scholarship exam.
Checked against the source on 2026-09-19.
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Furbo, Dublin, Salthill
The stay in Furbo was short. The school left at Christmas 1930 for Talbot House on Talbot Street in Dublin, moved to Glasnevin in 1934, and settled in Salthill in the building finished in the 1930s. It is run by a board under the Diocese of Galway, has a compulsory uniform and six base classes a year; juniors take the core subjects with French, German or Spanish and three options from business, graphics, woodwork, art, music and home economics, and Transition Year is optional.
Courts, pitches and water
The under-14 boys were All-Ireland A basketball cup champions in 2024 and the under-16 girls did the cup and league double in 2019. The senior footballers were All-Ireland B champions in 1981 and won the Connacht Senior B Cup in 2012 and 2022; the hurlers reached an All-Ireland D final in 2024; the under-15 girls won the FAI Schools Connacht cup in 2026; the sailing team took the Connacht and Ulster team racing title in 2026; and a debating team went to the international competition in Cambridge in 2025. Past pupils include the hurler John Hanbury, the footballer Daryl Horgan, two GAA presidents, Joe McDonagh and Séamus Ó Riain, the writer Breandán Ó hEithir and the sean-nós singer Seán 'ac Dhonncha. The model pins the school with Salthill's promenade below it.
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Written from Wikipedia, "Coláiste Éinde" (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.