St Jarlath's College
No school in Ireland has won the Hogan Cup, the All-Ireland colleges football championship, as often as the one in Tuam. St Jarlath's has twelve, the first in 1947, and 49 Connacht senior titles. It began in 1800 in two thatched cottages on the Mall, founded by Archbishop Edward Dillon to prepare boys for Maynooth after he had asked leave of the Protestant archbishop, and moved to the building on Bishop Street still called the Old College.
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St. Jarlath's College, Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the 3D model; tap a pin for its page and directions.
Two colleges into one
The school is named for Jarlath, who founded a monastery in the town when, the legend says, his chariot wheel broke. Its first president was Rev Oliver Kelly. A merger with St Patrick's College had been talked of since the late 1990s while a promised new building never came; as boarding was phased out and numbers fell, Archbishop Michael Neary announced in March 2008 that the amalgamation would go ahead without it, and St Jarlath's absorbed St Patrick's in 2009. It is co-educational, under the Archbishop of Tuam, with 625 pupils in 2024.
Opera and football
The college operatic society has staged a musical or opera for the town every year since The Mikado in 1944, with the Mercy Convent joining from The Quaker Girl in 1969. The senior footballers hold the Hogan Cup record with twelve wins and fourteen final defeats; since amalgamation they have won three Connacht titles, in 2011, 2012 and 2022, and reached the 2011 Hogan Cup final under Joe Burke. Past pupils include Enda Colleran, Seán Óg de Paor, Michael Donnellan and Damien Comer of Galway, and Michael Meehan teaches maths. The model pins the college with the two cathedrals and the stadium.
Questions people ask
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Written from Wikipedia, "St Jarlath's College" (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.