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SCOIL MOCHUA CELBRIDGE CO. KILDARE
  • Home
  • About our School
    • Introduction
    • Our History
    • Philosophy
    • Latest News
    • Uniform and Crest
    • Policies >
      • Covid-19 Policies
    • Staff
    • School Calendar 2020/21
    • SSE
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  • for kids
    • School Garden
    • Student Council
    • Useful links
  • for Parents
    • Enrolment 2021
    • Messages from Ms Carragher 2021
    • Child Protection
    • Newsletters
    • Parents' Association
    • junior infants 2020
    • Internet Safety
    • Reopening of Scoil Mochua
    • Absenteeism
    • Reminders
    • Rainbows
    • Book Lists 2020
    • Online Payments
  • School Life
    • STEM
    • intel solar for schools
    • Sports >
      • Hurling
      • Boys GAA
      • Girls GAA
      • Paul Ryan Cup
      • Basketball
    • Music >
      • School Musical 2019
      • School Musical 2016
      • Choir
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    • Junior Infants
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  • History of Celbridge
    • How Celbridge Got Its Name
    • William Conolly
    • Castletown
    • The Mill
    • The Obelisk
    • Celbridge Workhouse
    • Abbey National School
    • Oakley Park
    • Arthur Guinness
    • Celbridge Abbey
    • Lyons Estate
    • Daniel O'Connell
    • Saint Mochua
    • Tom Sands Remembers
    • Interesting Facts

Saint Mochua

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  • St. Mochua, who founded Clondalkin Abbey, is believed to have brought Christianity to the Celbridge area around the time of St. Patrick. A well at the entrance to the present Community Centre was known as St. Mochua's well and was used to baptise people in early Christian times. This well was cemented over and an inscribed stone tablet was placed on the wall in 1783. 
  • St. Mochua's church and graveyard at Tea Lane are also dedicated to him and this church served Celbridge before St. Patrick's Church or the Mass House were built.



  • The graveyard surrounding the old church was, until the start of the present century, the burial place of almost all the Celbridge families.

  • Scoil Mochua was opened in two prefabricated buildings in 1985 as a Co-Educational Catholic School with an enrolment of 49 junior infants. It was named in honour of St. Mochua because of his links with the community and his great love of animals. 

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Tom Sands

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  • Home
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    • Philosophy
    • Latest News
    • Uniform and Crest
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    • School Calendar 2020/21
    • SSE
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  • for kids
    • School Garden
    • Student Council
    • Useful links
  • for Parents
    • Enrolment 2021
    • Messages from Ms Carragher 2021
    • Child Protection
    • Newsletters
    • Parents' Association
    • junior infants 2020
    • Internet Safety
    • Reopening of Scoil Mochua
    • Absenteeism
    • Reminders
    • Rainbows
    • Book Lists 2020
    • Online Payments
  • School Life
    • STEM
    • intel solar for schools
    • Sports >
      • Hurling
      • Boys GAA
      • Girls GAA
      • Paul Ryan Cup
      • Basketball
    • Music >
      • School Musical 2019
      • School Musical 2016
      • Choir
    • Active School
    • Green School
    • Digital School
    • After-School Activities
  • Classes
    • Junior Infants
    • Senior Infants
    • First Class
    • Second Class
    • Third Class
    • Fourth Class
    • Fifth Class
    • SIxth Class
  • History of Celbridge
    • How Celbridge Got Its Name
    • William Conolly
    • Castletown
    • The Mill
    • The Obelisk
    • Celbridge Workhouse
    • Abbey National School
    • Oakley Park
    • Arthur Guinness
    • Celbridge Abbey
    • Lyons Estate
    • Daniel O'Connell
    • Saint Mochua
    • Tom Sands Remembers
    • Interesting Facts