St Stanislaus College

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St Stanislaus College Tullabeg, Offaly was founded as a school for boys under the age of thirteen in 1818. It was endowed by the O'Briens, a local gentry family, and was intended to cater for upper middle class Catholics, as was the sister college at Clongowes Wood College. In the 1850s, the school was enlarged to take older boys. However in 1886, the college was closed and the boys were transferred to Clongowes. This may have been because of a shortage of priests, as the Jesuit House in Dromore, Co. Down closed the same year and Mungret College in Limerick had just been established. In 1918, Tullabeg became a house for Jesuits novices, where it became affectionately known as "the Bog". It was subsequently a retreat house until the 1991. The building is now used as a nursing home.

The chapel at Tullabeg with its seven Evie Hone windows was one of the glories of Irish religious art of the twentieth century. They are now housed in the Jesuit Residence at Manresa House, Dublin.

Jesuit secondary schools in Ireland
Belvedere College • Clongowes Wood College • Crescent College • Gonzaga College • Mungret College • St Stanislaus College • St. Ignatius College