Cistercian College, Roscrea or Roscrea College is a private boarding school in Ireland. It is a Roman Catholic seven-day boarding school for boys and was founded in 1905. The current school president is Mrs. Marcelline Cody and the current school principal is Mr. Gerry Grealish. Its pupil population is primarily made up of boarding students, though a small number of teachers' sons also attend as day pupils.
Located within the grounds of Mount St....
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Cistercian College, Roscrea or Roscrea College is a private boarding school in Ireland. It is a Roman Catholic seven-day boarding school for boys and was founded in 1905. The current school president is Mrs. Marcelline Cody and the current school principal is Mr. Gerry Grealish. Its pupil population is primarily made up of boarding students, though a small number of teachers' sons also attend as day pupils.
Located within the grounds of Mount St. Joseph Abbey in Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland, the school is managed by monks of the Trappist branch of the Cistercians. It is situated in the grounds of Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, 2.5 miles west of Roscrea town. Surrounded by open wooded countryside and thirty acres of grounds and sports fields it also adjoins the Abbey farm of 360 hectares.
The school was founded by the Cistercian monks in 1905 as a monastic boarding school for boys and has educated students from all over Ireland. CCR is one of two monastic schools in Ireland and in...
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