St Wolstan's Community School


St. Wolstan's Community School is an all-female Community School, under the trusteeship of the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, the Holy Faith Sisters and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board situated in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. It is the only all-girls community school in Ireland.

History

was founded between 1202 and 1205 by Adam de Hereford and named after Saint Wolstan. The monastery was dissolved in 1536 and when the Holy Faith Sisters opened a girls' school on the site in 1955 they revived the name: St. Wolstan's Holy Faith Convent School. The school moved to the present site in Ballymakealy Upper in 1999.