Qualla: CBC Monkstown https://qualla.com/c-b-c-monkstown en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: CBC Monkstown https://qualla.com/c-b-c-monkstown CBC Monkstown: Introduction https://qualla.com/c-b-c-monkstown/ On 1 January 1856, ten years after the worst year of the Great Famine, the Congregation of Christian Brothers opened a small school for poor boys on Eblana Avenue in the Dublin harbour town of Kingstown - now Dun Laoghaire. The site had been donated by a local businessman called Charles Kennedy. Within three weeks the school was so full that the original two classrooms had to be expanded to three. Within two years there was a purpose-built building accommodating four hundred students. By the 1920s the school was preparing boys for university; by 1950 the secondary department had moved a kilometre south to a twenty-two-acre estate at Monkstown Park, where it sits to this day. CBC Monkstown is unusual among the ninety-six Christian Brothers schools in Ireland for two reasons. It always played rugby, not Gaelic football. And it was one of only two CBS schools that declined to join the 1967 Free Education Scheme - it has remained fee-paying ever since.

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